Sans doute pour la première fois, la Linux Foundation vient de subir une cyber-attaque majeure menée par des hackers. La Fondation a suspendu et fermé ses noms domaine de premier ordre « LinuxFoundation.org » ainsi que « Linux.com ». Actuellement, le site est en cours de maintenance et dans leur page d’accueil un message d’excuse. L’attaque a été découverte après l’attaque sur « kernel.org Linux archive » il y a deux semaines. La fondation a également mis en garde les utilisateurs sur les mots de passe et les clés SSH qu’ils ont utilisés sur ces sites. Voici le texte qu’on peut lire sur le site de la Fondation : « Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.
We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.
We apologize for the inconvenience. We are taking this matter seriously and appreciate your patience. The Linux Foundation infrastructure houses a variety of services and programs including Linux.com, Open Printing, Linux Mark, Linux Foundation events and others, but does not include the Linux kernel or its code repositories. Please contact us at info@linuxfoundation.org with questions about this matter.