SourceForge Down After Attack [Updated] 143
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? (Score:4, Informative)
You are romanticizing the Yakuza. They went after poor shopkeepers as much as the wealthy.
Re:Why (Score:5, Informative)
I have to imagine the majority of users get their stuff second hand through their favorite distro's repository these days.
Yes, because everyone who uses SourceForge is on Linux. There is such a thing as open source Windows and Mac software you know.
Re:Attack by prononymous? (Score:5, Informative)
Someone who really doesn't like the new Slashdot design?
That narrows it down to...oh, probably every fucking person who visits the site.