Posted on 11/24/2003 5:13:09 PM PST by Bush2000
Servers belonging to the open source Debian Project, which makes a version of the Linux operating system, were hacked last week, according both to statements posted by project organizers on the group's Web page and to a European CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Web site on Friday.
Four servers that host the project's bug tracking system, mailing lists, and various Web pages were compromised on Thursday. However, the intrusions do not affect a software update for the Debian Linux operating system that was released Friday, according to statements from Debian.
The intrusions forced the group to take the precautions of suspending e-mail service for developers through the debian.org domain and locking user accounts on other machines used by project developers, according to information posted on the Web site of project member Wichert Akkerman.
Content from compromised servers was verified using server log files and digital signatures, and was moved to different machines, according to information on Akkerman's site.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Isn't Debian supposed to be the "super secure" flavor of Linux?
Otherwise it's a source for glee.
Drew Garrett
I know the difference between Linux and *BSD.
Otherwise it's a source for glee.
Well, yeah. That's about the size of it. :-)
OK... In fact I find no joy in this. Of course not. But I don't have a bug up an orifice about my favorite OS either. I can see how some would indulge in a little righteous indignation, however. Good for the goose, et al.
Today's Linux Follies
I got my 1.3ghz $199 Walmart white box today. I took a 128mb module out of my PII 300 and added it to the 128mb that was already installed. Booted it up and it worked nicely with Knoppix CD Linux. The 52x CD made it run considerably faster than the old machine with the 24x unit.
I popped in Redhat 9.x and did a full install. It took about 35 minutes. No hitches. All of the hardware, mostly standard were easily recognized and I had to read the back of my monitor to pick it off the list. There was a complete selection of Optiplex monitors in the list including my 773-2. I tried a few of the built in applications. They could have been faster, but they were acceptable.
I had to give a makeup accounting exam so I left it running for 3 hours. Result: Still running when I came back. It would have frozen up on the PII 300.
I spent another two hours trying to get the network printer to work with no success. I gave up on the printer.
Next, I installed a floppy drive and an internal Zip 100. I didn't have time to figure out how to access them. It was not intuitive on the desktop and the file manager didn't give me any hints. I'm going to have to dig through the manuals to learn how to use anything but the my home folder on the hard drive. That is not good. If I have to read the manual, my students will never figure it out. It is possible that the floppy drive and the disk drive aren't installed properly and will arrive on my desktop when they are configured right, but I wouldn't have to do that in Windows.
Latest evaluation:
More to come. I'm going to go on perma-hold and call the Redhat support line. It's good until December 13th and dammit, they are going to get my network printer working or send me a refund (fat chance of that).
How could your P2/300 memory work in a brand new computer system? Wouldn't that P2/300 memory be 100Mhz SDRAM?
No. You're thinking of OpenBSD, which is a BSD, not Linux. Debian's probably most widely recognized for being stable and easy to maintain, but not very "sexy" for the desktop.
No, Debian is the "stable" version of Linux. I believe they are still on the 2.2 version of the kernel.
Looks like another case of someone not keeping up with security patches.
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