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SourceForge Site Compromised By Attackers

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The recent rash of attacks against free and open source software projects continued this week with an attack that targeted SourceForge, the popular repository for open source projects. The attack compromised a number of separate systems, including the site's CVS system.

The administrators at SourceForge detected the intrusion on Wednesday and during the investigation, they discovered that the attackers had succeeded in gaining access to several machines. After the attack was discovered, they quickly took a number of services offline, including the CVS system, Web-based code browsing, file upload capability and interactive shell services.

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The attack against SourceForge is the latest in what's become a string of such incidents affecting free and open-source software projects. Earlier this week officials at the Fedora Project disclosed an attack against the project's infrastructure. That incident was relatively minor, in that it resulted from the compromise of one user's account credentials and the attacker didn't make any changes to the Fedora packages.

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