<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, sourceforge]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, sourceforge]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sourceforge http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sourceforge <![CDATA[Index adjustment to bring boon, bust to Valley companies]]> The Russell 3000, a stock index from Tacoma-based Russell Investments, will be making an annual adjustment to listed companies Friday, and the Valley is a net gainer, with ten companies removed and fourteen added. For instance, chip maker Transmeta is in while open source software repository Sourceforge is out. Why does it matter? Because index funds have been popular among smaller investors who want to limit risk, and position changes mean big money flowing out of dropped listings and into those added. [Mercury News]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019290&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SourceForge hacked yesterday, but "no harm done" — for now]]> A tipster told us that SourceForge had been hacked yesterday, with the site unavailable for part of the morning, so we pinged people at the open-source code repository to see what went down. Says Ross Turk, the site's "community manager":
Hey, Jordan! Your tipster's accurate. We played a game of cat and mouse with a "security enthusiast" from Europe yesterday. :) No harm done, though, and everything's running smoothly.
Yesterday's incident wasn't the first hacking attempt on SourceForge. Last year, users were told to change their passwords. And suppose that the next intruder is more than just enthusiastic? If really talented hackers broke in, would we even know what they changed in the code? A chilling thought.

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