Re: Website hacked after nine million attempts

[Phillip Renouf <phillip () ALTERNATIVE CA>]

> n1nor, who in the defacement said: "I could have sworn this site was
> deemed unhackable," was credited by Vranesevich for cracking
> AntiOnline's defences - which security experts have said are usually
> very tight.

I'd really like to know which security experts have actually said this, no
one ever seems to offer up names for this claim.

> "The dedication and amount of time that you [n1nor] spent discovering
> and exploiting this vulnerability is as impressive as it is
> scary," said Vranesevich in his message.

I was under the impression it wasn't a new or ground breaking hack, just
JP's sloppy code. Here is that MS school of PR rearing it's head again.

Phil

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