On 8/20/2011 10:16 AM, Steve Stallings wrote:
> A couple of months ago, there was indeed an incident
> related to phishing support on the LinuxCNC.org web
> site. It was not obvious to regular users of the site
> because it was just acting as the mule to host the
> phishing content, not linked to it in any way.
>
> A weakness in the older version of Joomla content
> managment allowed the hack to happen. The phishing
> content was removed and no one using the site in the
> intended manner ever noticed.
>
> There have now been additional incidents and the
> hosting company took the precaution of turning the
> site off.
>
> The site maintainers are aware, and are in the process
> of trying to update the Joomla install and restore the
> content.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Stallings
>    
Looks like it's back up and running.  It was down earlier this morning, 
but the main page comes up okay now.

Mark

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