Cassandra issue tracker have ticket for this (and in this list link on this ticket was posted, but i forgot where)
2011/3/25 Shashank Tiwari <tsha...@gmail.com> > The Ubuntu Software Update seems to complain -- > Failed to fetch > http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > 403 Forbidden [IP: 140.211.11.131 80] > Failed to fetch > http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz > 403 Forbidden [IP: 140.211.11.131 80] > > Has something changed or is the mirror down? > > Thanks, Shashank >