For those of you who access Plant Genome data at the AGIS
servers of the National Agricultural Library, there has been a serious
security breach, which necessitates taking the service off-line
(see attached below) In the interim, please refer to the mirror site in the
UK:
http://synteny.nott.ac.uk/db.html
-mary polacco
curator MaizeDB
>
> >From: "Jon T. Krainak" <jkrainak at phage>
....
> Subject: plasmid hacked
>
> AGIS users,
>
>Two of our system administrators received an E-mail this morning stating
>that two of NAL's web servers were hacked into and trojan horse programs
had
>be placed on each server. Plasmid (Probe) was one of the servers. As
proof
>of the hack the E-mailer sent the password file from Plasmid as an
> attachment. We,therefore, are taking the matter very seriously. As a
>result, Plasmid has been disconnected from the Internet. CERT is being
>notified of the attack. An investigation is underway. This means that
>Plasmid will be unreachable via the Internet until the investigation is
>completed and security on Plasmid is restored.
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Jon
>
>
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> Jon T. Krainak
> jkrainak at nal.usda.gov
> Phone (301) 504-5877
> Genome Informatics Group
> National Agricultural Library
> 10301 Baltimore Blvd.
> Beltsville Md. 20705
