Debian Locks Out Developers After Server Hack
Renai LeMay writes on C|Net News:
The Debian GNU/Linux project has locked a number of its developers out of their system accounts, following the hack of a key internal server.More here.
A compromised developer account was used to take control of the server, according to an e-mail sent Thursday to the community by Debian developer Martin Schulze. List members were told of the intrusion in an announcement the day before.
"At least one developer account has been compromised a while ago and has been used by an attacker to gain access to the Debian server," Schulze wrote.
The developer said the attacker then used a recently discovered vulnerability in the Linux kernel to gain root--or admin--access on the server.
posted by Fergie @ 7/14/2006 01:52:00 PM
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