[lug] Apache Survives Server Crack Attack (fwd)

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:57:51AM -0600, John Starkey wrote:
> I'm sure this will be of interest to someone.
> 
> The open-source organization reveals that its public Web server was cracked
> by an unknown assailant two weeks ago.
> 
> http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_776431,00.html

There is a statement from the apache team about this:

  http://www.apache.org/info/20010519-hack.html

I particularly like the paragraph starting "Through an extra verification step available to the ASF..." Take that Closed Source!

Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com