Hacked Gentoo Linux server taken offline

[Brian Densmore]

Hacked Gentoo Linux server taken offline
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5113227.html?tag=st_lh       

'Hackers have forced the Gentoo Linux project to take a server offline

The attack and subsequent compromise comes after several machines belonging to the Debian Linux 
project were breached by attackers last month. A forensic analysis of the Debian machines revealed 
that no software packages or source code offered for download were affected--a claim now being made 
by Gentoo.
		
	
	

The maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution released a statement that describes the incident: 
"One of the servers that makes up the rsync.gentoo.org rotation was compromised via a remote 
exploit," it reads. "The compromised system had both an IDS and a file integrity checker installed 
and...we are reasonably confident that the portage tree stored on that box was unaffected." '

 Brian

"Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass, 
Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow, 
Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, 
one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne 
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. 
one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, 
one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, 
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie."    john thrum