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Submission + - Apache mailing list "hacked" 1

Ghaan writes: "This morning (8.30am GMT), as usual, I checked Apache Software Foundation RSS feed and starred at it for a while with blank look in my face. Some smart bot or someone managed to hack ASF mailing list (in case they fix it soon, as I hope, here's a screenshot) and post there tones of useless spam. So, now thousands of regular readers know where to buy Viagra and cheap software... great! I'm sick of such spam because something similar happened to several blogs lately (including my own) and I ask myself where's the end of this. Anyway, let's secure our own mailing lists and blogs, add JavaScript "patches" and pray because you may be next..."

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