[NBLUG/talk] debian.org compromised

Liz Young liz at sonic.net
Sun Nov 23 08:34:00 PST 2003


On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:26 pm, Andrew wrote:
> For the last couple of days I've been wondering why I couldn't
> reach parts of the debian.org domain (lists, security, non-US,
> etc.). Now I know. Several of their servers were recently
> compromised. The Debian Website says nothing, but I ran across an
> announcement on DistroWatch.com's homepage
> ( http://www.distrowatch.com/ )  They claim that "the archive is
> not affected by this compromise". I'm taking that to mean the
> package repositories, but I'm going to hold off on upgrading my
> systems for a few days to see what comes of this (even though
> 3.0r2 has just come out).

Just FYI,
There was a post to the debian-announce mail list on Friday before the 
lists were shut down.  A cleanup status was posted yesterday:

http://www.wiggy.net/debian/status/




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