Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw******.com> wrote in
news:1qvrxj9wrldm1$.vh98b5dgtn1w.dlg@40tude.net:
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> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:04:12 -0400, DFS wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Factors in Making Linux Happen[/color]
>>
>> "The Ubuntu community had to yank five of the eight Ubuntu-hosted
>> community servers sponsored by Canonical offline Aug. 6 after
>> discovering that the servers had been hijacked and were attacking
>> other machines."
>> [url]http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Ubuntu-Servers-Hijacked-Used-to-Laun[/url]
>> ch-Attack/[/color][/color]

Nothing like beating a dead horse huh.......

More details are these servers were not actually on-site at Canonical, and
not administered by Canonical either, and found to be way out of date as
far as system updates go.