Free Software Directory gets overhaul
The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Free Software Directory has been relaunched and contains over 6500 programs that it says are free.
October 1st, 2011 in Distribution by Chris Duckett 3 Comments 1 VoteThere are currently no popular stories.
The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Free Software Directory has been relaunched and contains over 6500 programs that it says are free.
October 1st, 2011 in Distribution by Chris Duckett 3 Comments 1 VoteThe Free Software Foundation has been hacked and was forced to withdraw its code repository. Hackers used an SQL injection attack against the hosting software of GNU Savannah but did not gain root access to the site. Access credentials have been stolen and decrypted using brute force attacks.
There's been a SQL injection leading to a leak of encrypted account passwords, some of them discovered by brute force attack, leading in turn to project membership access and vandalism on the "www" project that backs www.gnu.org.
via savannah.gnu.org
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The Free Software Foundation is beginning celebrations of 25 years of GNU with the release of a video presented by actor and comedian Stephen Fry.
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