From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 15:01:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9B3AFC4 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [69.164.206.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4EFE43 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.64] (unknown [168.103.85.95]) (Authenticated sender: tyler) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2EE0CA113; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:07:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <53270E45.6050407@tysdomain.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:01:25 -0400 From: "Littlefield, Tyler" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos Subject: Re: What security tool that Ubuntu Forums should have used to not be hacked? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: tyler@tysdomain.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:01:29 -0000 On 3/17/2014 10:11 AM, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: Scali says: "I had only done a blog on Linux yesterday, and there is already some more news of obvious incompetence in the Linux world. The forums of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, have been hacked. Currently there is an announcement with the following message: Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance" . reference:http://scalibq.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/speak-of-the-devil-ubuntu-forums-hacked/#comment-4320 Who is has competence? Debian, Slackware, etc It's not in the OS, but the people that use it. Also: If there was a 0-day exploit used on the forums, there's not to much anyone could've done about it. Good backups are the way to go. Finally though, what's the point in all of this? Even forums on Freebsd can be hacked if there's an exploit which is unknown or hasn't been patched... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.