[linux-audio-announce] Main AGNULA host back online after attack

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florence, 28 April 2005 +++ Main AGNULA host back online after attack After the attack (and potential compromise) that the AGNULA main host (agnula.speech.kth.se) suffered from in the past days [0], we are happy to announce that we concluded the reinstallation process. All the services provided by the host have been restored and are, to the best of our knowledge, fully functional. +++ After the attack (and potential compromise) that the AGNULA main host (agnula.speech.kth.se) suffered from in the past days [0], we are happy to announce that we concluded the reinstallation process. All the services provided by the host have been restored and are, to the best of our knowledge, fully functional. On Sunday, April 16 2005, the main AGNULA host (agnula.speech.kth.se, hosting lists.agnula.org, www.agnula.org, download.agnula.org, devel.agnula.org, muzik.agnula.org and related services) was subject to an attack (see below). The attacker(s) (whose identity is unknown as of today) managed to download, *but not succesfully run*, a backdoor on the system; thanks to the tight security measures implemented on the host - and after a thorough check of the whole system - we had reasons to believe that the latter was *not* compromised. However, following good security practices and common sense, we could not guarantee the integrity of the host. Since we had already planned an extensive upgrade of the server, we decided to go down the safer route: completely wipe out the system, reinstall everything from scratch and recover backup data from the day before the attempted compromise. The reinstallation process has now come to an end. All the services should be back online as you read this e-mail (actually, they started to come back before this announcement, but we preferred to do some checks in advance). Please feel free to contact &lt;info(a)agnula.org&gt;rg>, should you notice any problem. +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing its work, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video arena. Big thanks to the following institutions for their help in supporting AGNULA: - Firenze Tecnologia <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it> for paying Free Ekanayaka to work full-time on maintaining A/DeMuDi; - KTH Department of Speech, Music and Hearing <http://www.speech.kth.se/> for housing and supporting the main AGNULA server - IRCAM <http://www.ircam.fr> and CCRMA <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/> for providing mirror space and bandwidth - Red Hat France <http://www.redhat.fr/> for supporting the A/RehMuDi distribution Best regards, -- The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/ Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/ "There's no free expression without control on the tools you use" [0] http://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/announce/2005-April/000089.html