Ubuntu servers shut down for attacking others
MAKER OF the Open Sauce Ubuntu software, Cannonical had to shut down five of the eight of its servers after receiving reports that they were attacking other servers.
Knowing that there is nothing worse than a bunch of chavish Linux servers looking for a rumble, or goading Windows computers with calls of, "Come and have a go, if you're hard enough," Cannonical decided to pull the plug.
With the offending servers out of action, Cannonical called for probation reports and found that the servers had a variety of problems.
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Details on the compromised Ubuntu servers
On Monday evening (UK time) it was reported that one of the hosted community servers that Canonical sponsors had been compromised. After investigation, it became apparent that 5 of the 8 machines had been compromised. Since it was reported that they were actively attacking other machines, the decision was taken to shut the machines down.
On Tuesday morning we started the procedure of bringing these machines up in a safe state so that we could recover data from them. Unfortunately, this took far longer than we would have hoped or liked due to a combination of having to use remote hands, arbitrary limits imposed by those remote hands and (relative) lack of bandwidth to copy data off site.
This process is still ongoing (though only one remain has yet to be fully recovered - tiber).
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wacky ubuntu noobs
If only there was some way to keep those wacky Ubuntu noobs from running everything as root, I'm sure those servers would have been much more secure.
roflmao
re: wacky ubuntu noobs
Some gentoo servers were compromised recently too. Probably some others out there we don't know about yet as well.
re: Gentoo server
As usual, you are a fountain of knowledge.
//but it's more fun to poke at ubuntu stuff.