An announcement was made today at Debian.org that gluck, one of several major Debian Project development computers had been compromised.

Details are sketchy but it appears that it may have been hosting the following services / repositories cvs, ddtp, lintian, people, popcon, planet, ports and release. They state they have taken the affected machine offline, as well as restricted access to other boxes on their domain pending investigation.

 ... a wolf in sheeps clothing? 

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Tests, ultimate frontier for securing code produced every day and night all over the world.

If only programmers could perform them. Instead, security researchers work day and night to check systems used every day by millions of users around the world releasing the necessary information to avoid users being abused by malicious files, be them programs or documents, which could deliver the keys to the system to an unknown attacker.

The U.S. State Department is now recovering from the effects of a large-scale computer break-ins targeting American headquarters and offices around the world.

 A particular tenacity against those offices dealing with China and North Korea is worth noticing. According to The Associated Press, investigators stated that U.S. information and passwords were stolen, and they discovered that  backdoors were implanted in unclassified government computers to allow crackers to return whenever they want.

According to last news from  the U.S.A.,  governments lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss  a courtroom dispute against the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program  because it would have exposed sensitive state secrets.

Payroll processing giant  ADP recently disclosed that it was the target of several dedicated data breaches between Nov 2005 and Feb 2006. Statements by ADP to Baseline Magazine claim they were successfully targeted by an "unauthorized party impersonating company officers" at several different locations. ADP officials indicated that aproximatly 140,000 user account information was affected from clients Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and UBS, although it appears that only investor names, addresses and share volumes of stock we compromised. While the data loss did not contain information commonly associated with identity theft, the data that was purloined can provide the perpetrators with valuable information.

 With so many data breaches being reported everyday, what makes this noteworthy?