BSDNews.com is hacked and user information is exposed

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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FYI.

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Breach Description:
It appears that the BSDNews.com web site may have been compromised through
an exploit of a file named "bottom.php3", which was used by the site.  The
attacker was able to access and download user account information.  As of
the time of this writing, BSDNews.com is offline.

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More:
http://breachblog.com/2008/04/25/bsdnews.aspx

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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