[huskerlug] Re: CERT Advisory

That was on Slashdot yesterday.  It's a horrible thing, but it kinda' makes me
fell better though.  If GNU got hacked, then I don't feel as bad as I did about
being hacked. Although theirs was probably a real hacker and mine was only a
script-kiddy....

-Cesar

Quoting Jaymz Ringler <jringler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> CERT Advisory CA-2003-21 GNU Project FTP Server Compromise
> 
>    Original issue date: August 13, 2003
>    Last revised: --
>    Source: CERT/CC
> 
>    A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
> 
> Overview
> 
>    The  CERT/CC has received a report that the system housing the 
> primary
>    FTP servers for the GNU software project was compromised.
> 
> I. Description
> 
>    The GNU Project, principally sponsored by the Free Software 
> Foundation
>    (FSF),  produces  a  variety of freely available software. The 
> CERT/CC
>    has  learned  that  the system housing the primary FTP servers for 
> the
>    GNU  software  project,  gnuftp.gnu.org,  was  root  compromised by
> 
> an
>    intruder.  The more common host names of ftp.gnu.org and 
> alpha.gnu.org
>    are  aliases  for  the  same  compromised  system.  The  compromise
> 
> is
>    reported to have occurred in March of 2003.
> 
>   
> 
> 
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