Beryl server was attacked!

Jan 8, 2007 10:23 GMT  ·  By

Beryl website was down for a few days last week because it was a victim of an online attack directed at their MySQL server. It appears that the attack removed most of the website's content. When I checked the site on 5 January, only the forum was working. The team has analyzed the server logs and they think the attack comes from a Compiz community member. Beryl team will not publish the identity of the hacker until it will be turned over and reviewed by the proper community authorities. The recovery process has begun and this attack will cost the Beryl team hours of repair and recovery.

"The "attack" on the site thus far (log review is still going on) seems to be the result of a social engineering effort which allowed the attacker to gain access to a fairly unprivileged account, but enough to drop some tables. The attacker did not use a proxy and will be reported to their local authorities. Some good news, most content has been restored and more is being restored now." - says the Beryl team.

In other news, Beryl 0.1.4 was released on Christmas and brings new features and improved plugins: "This release signifies the fifth major developer release of Beryl and the beginning of Beryl's freeze for our current stable target 0.2.0. The plugins you see in this are the plugins you will be playing with on 0.2.0, though some of them are bound to change and improve."

About Beryl

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base.

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl, the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace.

You can download Beryl now from Softpedia.