Re:Gentoo GitHub Organization hacked
by mistrial9 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:15PM
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side note -- there is another FOSS org that was repeatedly, specifically attacked around the end of 2015, but they chose not to publicize it.. made worse because the volunteer community around the server admin was immediately far outside their comfort zone to implement fixes and recovery. The MediaWiki instance as well as raw servers were affected. No discussion in public about likely perpetrators. but what can you say ? How can you prove it? Commercial vendor rivals, nation-state actors, mean junkies, all of the above? Harsh and UN-necsessary .. everything was volunteer and above-board at the FOSS group, just too valuable ?
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You can't just tell that story w/o namedropping....
Probably talking about FSF.
Employees of backconnect.com including Tucker Preston and Marshall Webb DDoSed them for a while to land them as clients for their DDoS protection service.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/ddos-mitigation-firm-has... (ctrl-f FSF)