GNOME servers compromised, 2.6 release delayed
The GNOME system administration team has sent out a
notice that some GNOME web servers have been compromised. The cleanup
is now in progress. The project has determined
that the GNOME 2.6 sources (which were due to be released today) have
not been tampered with, but the release has been delayed one week (to the
31st) anyway. (Thanks to Jonathan Lucas).
Posted Mar 25, 2004 9:47 UTC (Thu)
by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)
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Am I paranoid or does this look like a pattern? What about applying a counter-pattern: some major free software project should announce a date for their next major release, and populate their infrastructure with honeypots...
GNOME servers compromised, 2.6 release delayed