What security tool that Ubuntu Forums should have used to not be hacked?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

On 3/17/2014 10:11 AM, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote:

Scali says:

"I had only done a blog on Linux yesterday, and there is already some more news of obvious incompetence in the Linux world. The forums of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, have been hacked. Currently there is an announcement with the following message: Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance" .     reference:http://scalibq.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/speak-of-the-devil-ubuntu-forums-hacked/#comment-4320

Who is has competence?
Debian, Slackware, etc

It's not in the OS, but the people that use it. Also: If there was a 0-day exploit used on the forums, there's not to much anyone could've done about it. Good backups are the way to go.

Finally though, what's the point in all of this? Even forums on Freebsd can be hacked if there's an exploit which is unknown or hasn't been patched... _______________________________________________
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