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Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:01:38 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via PC World (IDG). [snip] HD Moore has been owned. That's hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit has become the victim of a computer attack. It happened on Tuesday morning, when Moore's company, BreakingPoint had some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page that was being run by a scammer. According to Moore, the hacker was able to do this by launching what's known as a cache poisoning attack on a DNS server on AT&T's network that was serving the Austin, Texas area. One of BreakingPoint's servers was forwarding DNS (Domain Name System) traffic to the AT&T server, so when it was compromised, so was HD Moore's company. When Moore tried to visit Google.com, he was actually redirected to a fake page that served up a Google page in one HTML frame along with three other pages designed to automatically click on advertisements. [snip] More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/149126/2008/07/.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIj/Wrq1pz9mNUZTMRAmAhAJ9lT5hosH5xBOWOsTFArDsw1MGN1ACg+wQR a12h7wcZ9hy0JN2DtHkuZGo= =Wv/X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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