Security Breach - Linux.com

September 12, 2011 by shabinesh

Earlier last week news of security breach at Kernel.org was floating the internet.On 8 September another breach was discovered at infrastructure of Linux Foundation,it's sites Linux.com, LinuxFoundation.org and all their subdomains are down and display the following message.

Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.


We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.


We apologize for the inconvenience. We are taking this matter seriously and appreciate your patience. The Linux Foundation infrastructure houses a variety of services and programs including Linux.com, Open Printing, Linux Mark, Linux Foundation events and others, but does not include the Linux kernel or its code repositories.

It also advised its users to “consider the passwords and SSH keys that (they) have used on these sites compromised" and change them soon.