apache.org downtime - initial report | Linux Today

apache.org downtime – initial report

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2009

“To the best of our knowledge at this time, no end users were
affected by this incident, and the attackers were not able to
escalate their privileges on any machines.

“While we have no evidence that downloads were affected, users
are always advised to check digital signatures where provided.

“minotaur.apache.org runs FreeBSD 7-STABLE and is more widely
known as people.apache.org. Minotaur serves as the seed host for
most apache.org websites, in addition to providing shell accounts
for all Apache committers.”


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