Re: Vendor-sec hosting and future of closed lists

[Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:12:24PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> As moderator of vendor-sec and one of the sysadmins of lst.de I noticed
> a break-in into the lst.de machine last week, which was likely used to
> sniff email traffic of vendor-sec. This incident probably happened on Jan 20
> as confirmed by timestamp, but might have existed for longer.
>
> As the system in use at lst.de is quite old and the admin team and myself
> does not really have the time anymore to keep it on a secure level, we
> would like to move the list to another hosting place.
>
> I have disabled the specific backdoor, but as I am not sure how the
> break-in happened it might reappear. So I recommend not mailing embargoed
> issues to vendor-sec () lst de at this time.

So after I posted this (and went for some beers) the attacker read this
and reentered the lst.de machine, went amok and destroyed the machine's
installation. The machine has now been shutdown.

So everyone please consider vendor-sec () lst de is dead and gone at this point,
successors (or not) will hopefully result out of this discussion.

Ciao, Marcus (ex-moderator)

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