SourceForge Down After Attack [Updated]

Animats writes "SourceForge, a hosting site for many open source projects, is down today. Management claims they were attacked: 'We detected a direct targeted attack that resulted in an exploit of several SourceForge.net servers, and have proactively shut down a handful of developer centric services to safeguard data and protect the majority of our services.' Currently, CVS and SVN access to source code, even for reading, is unavailable, and there is no announced restoration time." (SourceForge and Slashdot are both part of Geeknet, Inc.) Update: 01/27 22:17 GMT by T : Mark Ramm of SourceForge contributes an update and some clarification: the site is up, and SVN is available, though CVS isn't. There's also a follow-up post on the site's blog.

Re:Attack by prononymous?

[tverbeek]

Someone who really doesn't like the new Slashdot design?

Slashdot

[chargersfan420]

Good thing Slashdot is still up and running!

Unless... it was replaced with an impostor with some bad design decisions!

Re:Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew something was suspicious with cmdrBurrito

Re:Attack by prononymous?

[insertwackynamehere]

You just don't get it. Everything in glorious Nippon is perfect! One day, I will travel there and they will embrace me for my love of their cartoons.

Baka gaijin.

Re:Attack by prononymous?

[ebuck]

I see your dragging, beating, tarring, feather, beaten, draw and quartering, and raise you grinding, flavoring, and packing into casing.

Re:Attack by prononymous?

[mapkinase]

They know the value of all the software on SourceForge and they wanted to steal it, pirate it, hack it, reverse engineer it and put it on tor... oh, wait.

Re:Attack by prononymous?

[tverbeek]

So that rules out the vast majority of visitors: the not-fucking people.