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Ubuntu Servers Hacked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the zomg-alert-the-media dept.

An anonymous reader noted that "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."

3 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Following the M$ example. Re:BWAHAHAHA... by twitter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "...but the M$ campus gets hacked all the time." Do you have evidence for this? Particularly for the "all the time" part.

    No, but if M$ can't guard their precious source code, what can they guard?

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  2. Re:I am what I am and it is what it is. by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At least he had the courage to post under his own username.

    More often than not the people who tend to post logged in to counter twitter's bullshit with, you know, arguments, get nailed by retarded fanboy moderators who think twitter's annoying hyperbolic "let me tell you how it is" tone and puerile creative spelling are kewl. So if at least once in a while a post that tells the truth about the emperor being completely buck naked comes up through the noise, I think that's just fine.

    So far in this article twitter has done nothing more than try to somehow blame some Linux servers getting p0wnd on "M$", probably because under his black and white "join us or die" mantra that simply cannot happen. Which is hilarious because he constantly complains about "paid M$ shills" astroturfing on articles about Microsoft to allegedly confuse and distract people "from the issues".

    You figure this type of behavior is worth defending?

  3. Typical of Ubuntu by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A LOT of crap "falls through the cracks" with those people.

    Which is why I'm running openSUSE 10.2 now.

    Not QUITE as much crap falls through the cracks with Novell.

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    Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!