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Devuan Site Possibly Hacked

posted by martyb on Monday April 01 2019, @02:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-want-a-pwny! dept.

darkfeline writes:

The Devuan website looks hacked. Given the timing, it's probable that it is an April's Fools Joke, though it's not clear if it's the Devuan devs' April's Fools joke or the hackers' April's Fools Joke. In any case, it's probably better for any Devuan users to avoid updating their packages and keep an eye out for signs of compromise.

If it is a joke by the devs, then they are taking it pretty far since official channels of communication say that the hack is real (but package are not compromised): https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20190331.191104.169aaf9a.en.html

In any case, it's a warning about taking Devuan too seriously; either they don't know how to secure their servers, or they don't know what it means to take a joke too far.

https://www.devuan.org/ redirects to https://www.devuan.org/pwned.html which displays:

                                 _           _                       THE WEB SUCKS -- JAVASCRIPT SUCKS -- BROWSERS SUCK
          _  ___ ___  ___ ___   | |    _ _  | |
        / _`|  _| -_)  -_)   \  |  \ / _` ||  _|                         GOPHER IS THE WAY -- GOPHER IS THE FUTURE
        \__,|_| \___|\___|_|_|  |_|_|\__,_| \__|
        ___/_              _
           | |    _ _  __ | |_  ___  ___  ___               ********************************************************************
           |  \ / _` |/ _|| | // -_)|  _|(_-<                        ******       DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED       ******
           |_|_|\__,_|\__||_\_\\___||_| (___/               ********************************************************************
           .................................
         ...........##...#...#####............                 WE TURNED ALL DEVUAN'S SHITTY WEBSITES INTO PROPER GOPHERHOLES
        ...........###...#.##########............
       ...........####....###.......##............          ********************************************************************
     ............#############......##..............
    ............#######################..............            ***  STOP THE MADNESS -- GET YOURSELF A GOPHER CLIENT  ***
   .............#######################...............
  .............#######################.................                 WWW   ->   gopher://www.devuan.org
  .............#####################.....#.............                 GIT   ->   gopher://git.devuan.org
...............###############.........######..........                ISOS  ->   gopher://files.devuan.org
........######.##############.........#########........                INFO  ->   gopher://pkginfo.devuan.org
.......######################.......############.........               BTS   ->   gopher://bugs.devuan.org
......########################################...........               STATS ->   gopher://popcon.devuan.org
.......#####################################.............
........#################################................      ***  GOPHER IS STILL ALIVE AND KICKING -- JUST CHECK IT OUT  ***
..........###########################....................
.............##################..........................         gopher://gopherproject.org -- gopher://gopher.floodgap.com
......................................#####..............    gopher://bitreich.org - gopher://sdf.org - gopher://gopherpedia.com
...............................###########.............             gopher://circumlunar.space -  gopher://gopher.quux.org
.............................###########...............
  .............########################.....#######....        ***  KISS PORT 80 GOODBYE -- JOIN THE REVOLUTION ON PORT 70  ***
  .............#####....###############...#########....
   ............#####.....############################.      *******************************************************************
    .######.....####################################.
     .#######....##################################.               WE KNOW YOU -- WE FOLLOW YOU -- WE OWN YOUR COMPUTERS
      ..#######...###############################..
        ..######..#############################..                        *****    ANY RESISTANCE IS FUTILE    *****
          ...###############################...
             ...#########################...                   WE ARE GREEN HAT HACKERS: WE CAME, WE SAW, WE KICKED YOUR ASS
                ......#############......
                  .....................                     *******************************************************************

                                                                 IF YOU LUSER CAN'T USE A GOPHER CLIENT, USE THE PROXY AT:
                                                                           https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @03:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @03:28PM (#823103)

    In my experience, systemd is a great way to secure your servers, since with it, my servers don't boot past the initramfs stage. No running services == no attack vectors, right?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @06:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @06:01AM (#823476)

    I would say that's an OK opinion to have, my main issue is with the clear bias in comments like "this is just proof Devuan should not be taken seriously" when they could just say "this is either a joke has gone too far or they're having serious problems". Really that flame war is past, so my comments aimed at systemd are just to make a point about that (meaning yes systemd can easily be criticizied too).