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Death of software exec adds pathos to attack on Web hosting firm
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:19:32 -0500 (CDT)
http://blogs.computerworld.com/death_of_software_exec_adds_pathos_to_attack_on_web_hosting_firm By Jaikumar Vijayan Second Take Computerworld Blogs June 10, 2009 The apparent suicide earlier this week by the owner of a company that develops virtualization software used by low cost Web hosting companies has added pathos to a massive hacking incident at one of the firm's U.K.-based customers. KT Ligesh, the 32-year old owner of Bangalore based LX Labs was found dead in his home on Monday morning according to a report in the Times of India. The paper quoting local police said the suicide might have been prompted by Lx Lab's recent loss of a contract to a rival firm and other personal issues stemming from the suicide of his mother and sister a few years ago. Ligesh's death came just a day after VAserv, a U.K. Web hosting company disclosed that unknown hackers had breached its virtual server infrastructure and completely deleted 100,000 Web sites being hosted by the company. Nearly half of those might have irretrievably lost data because they did not have back-ups of their data according to a story in The Register. According to VAserv the hackers breached the company's servers by taking advantage of a zero-day flaw in HyperVM, a virtualization platform sold by LX Lab. But a note published ostensibly by the hacker claimed that the attacks had happened because VAserv had insecure password management practices and not because of HyperVM flaws. [...] _____________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News security bookstore! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org
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