[plug] Beware

[Trent Lloyd]

thanks for the heads up
i did forward this to plug a couple days ago tho :)

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:07:11PM +0800, Rob Davies wrote:
> Morning all,
> Found this article on news server this morning after repairing over
> weekend and bringing back online.
> 
> Appologies if already been published on mailing-list, but I have no
> record on mailing servers so thought I would let you all know.
> 
> Subject:      Some Debian Project machines have been compromised
> From:         Martin Schulze <joey at infodrom.org>
> Newsgroups:   linux.debian.announce
> Date:         Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:40:12 +0100
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
> Some Debian Project machines compromised                press at debian.org
> November 21st, 2003
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Some Debian Project machines have been compromised
> 
> This is a very unfortunate incident to report about.  Some Debian
> servers were found to have been compromised in the last 24 hours.
> 
> The archive is not affected by this compromise!
> 
> In particular the following machines have been affected:
> 
>   . master (Bug Tracking System)
>   . murphy (mailing lists)
>   . gluck (web, cvs)
>   . klecker (security, non-us, web search, www-master)
> 
> Some of these services are currently not available as the machines
> undergo close inspection.  Some services have been moved to other
> machines (www.debian.org for example).
> 
> The security archive will be verified from trusted sources before it
> will become available again.
> 
> Please note that we have recently prepared a new point release for
> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody), release 3.0r2.  While it has not been
> announced yet, it has been pushed to our mirrors already.  The
> announcement was scheduled for this morning but had to be postponed.
> This update has now been checked and it is not affected by the
> compromise.
> 
> We apologise for the disruptions of some services over the next few
> days.  We are working on restoring the services and verifying the
> content of our archives.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Davies
> rob at rjdarts.com
> 
> ' To converse is one strategy that separates us, from the Apes.'
> 
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