diff --git a/OldNews.md b/OldNews.md index 2f5cef7..462e389 100644 --- a/OldNews.md +++ b/OldNews.md @@ -4,6 +4,26 @@ See also [new News](News). ## Archived News Items +### 2007-08-21 -- security flaw + +Nathan Wilcox has discovered that the new web API in allmydata-tahoe +version 0.5 is vulnerable to XSRF attack. An XSRF -- or "Cross-Site +Reference Forgery" attack -- is one in which an attacker creates an +innocuous-looking hyperlink, and if a user clicks on that hyperlink +then it causes deletion or theft of the user's data. We are working +on a fix for this problem, and in the meantime if you have stored any +private or precious data on a tahoe grid, then you can make sure that +you are not exposed to this threat by shutting down your tahoe node +before browsing the web. + +You can read more about the attack and our fix in the mailing list archves: + + + +and in this bug tracker ticket: + + + ### 2007-08-17 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.5 is released. [release announcement and discussion](http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-August/001209.html)