Saturday, January 29, 2011

Sourceforge.net attacked!

This was a direct attack to Open Source website sourceforge.net that hosts opensource projects made by anyone interested in making such projects. On Wednesday, the website reported exploit of several servers and fears compromise of user passwords. Hence all users have been asked to renew their passwords via the link:


Besides this, many developer-centric services were shut down to prevent data integrity. Mainly people reported that their file editing system was not working. The following services have been shut-down to prevent further damage:

* CVS Hosting
* ViewVC (web based code browsing)
* New Release upload capability
* Interactive Shell services
It was truly outrageous of some people to attack an open-source project in a world where anything else costs too much for individual PC users. Meanwhile, SF is busy identifying the attack's source.

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