Ubuntu Servers Hijacked, Possibly by Chinese Hackers
And I thought the Chinese liked free software. Five of the eight Ubuntu Linux-based servers that were being sponsored by Ubuntu owner Canonical had to be pulled offline this week after the organization discovered that they had been hijacked by hackers. The hijacking was discovered after Ubuntu engineers noticed a Chinese IP address repeatedly attempting a brute-force logon to one of the servers, and they're only now trying to bring them online again. So what was the problem? It turns out it has nothing to do with Linux per se, but an awful lot to do with human failings: The servers were all horribly out of date and hadn't been updated with the latest security fixes and other patches. What's amazing about this is that Ubuntu Linux makes this sort of thing disarmingly easy, so someone was really not doing their job. Way to go, guys.
And I thought the Chinese liked free software. Five of the eight Ubuntu Linux-based servers that were being sponsored by Ubuntu owner Canonical had to be pulled offline this week after the organization discovered that they had been hijacked by hackers. The hijacking was discovered after Ubuntu engineers noticed a Chinese IP address repeatedly attempting a brute-force logon to one of the servers, and they're only now trying to bring them online again. So what was the problem? It turns out it has nothing to do with Linux per se, but an awful lot to do with human failings: The servers were all horribly out of date and hadn't been updated with the latest security fixes and other patches. What's amazing about this is that Ubuntu Linux makes this sort of thing disarmingly easy, so someone was really not doing their job. Way to go, guys.
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