blackhat101 Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Just signed into Suse to find that the Novell Webserver has been hacked. This is what they left: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I knew that Suse had something to do with Atomic energy and got mandate to decide a blocade against Iran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhat101 Posted October 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Are you kidding, I'll have to check that out and tell the boys at my Suse forum, as they have no idea why. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I wonder why they chose the SUSE server and not e.g. the Windows server. They would get more publicity if they hack a Microsoft one. Oh, of course that does not mean that I encourage anyone to hack any server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhat101 Posted October 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) A nearby Novell employee was quoted as saying "D***it, Jim, I'm a technical writer, not a network security monkey!" I am under the impression from the buzz i am hearing, that they never even thought that OpenSuse would be a target, thus making it very hackable. Edited October 2, 2005 by blackhat101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhat101 Posted October 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 Got this in my e-mail today. they hadn't updated their software. Hi, As you probably know, several Novell hosted web sites got defaced by a vandal on the weekend. The vandalized hosts wiki.novell.com, opensuse.org, and forge.novell.com are actually virtual hosts living on one machine, making this one affected machine. The intruder gained access to the system by exploiting a known vulnerability in the "Xoops" blog software installed on another virtual host on this system (www.novell.com/prblogs/). This software was not upgraded to the latest security fixed version. The host affected is fully separate from our RPM and security fix delivery machines, so the integrity of our distributions and update repositories was not affected. Sincerely, Marcus Meissner, SUSE Security Team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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