The entire article is massively misleading and silly -- even with the rewrites. Has it even been confirmed that Metasploit was used in this attack?
"That's hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit has become the victim of a computer attack." Victim insinuates that there was some loss or damages suffered. AFAIK that is not the case. "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." Compromised insinuates that Breakingpoint systems were breached in some way. Again, not the case. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [funsec] Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His OwnCreat ion One problem, he really did say "I got owned." It was a joke and I didn't put it in the right context in the article, so yeah I was wrong. But I would never have led with that line if he hadn't said it. I just figured that it would be obvious that it was AT&T's problem from the story. Wrong again. Bob > > The first line of the article still reads "HD Moore has been owned." which > is false. My reply to you was more to point out that the article is crap > and that PCWorld is *beginning* to fix some of the mistakes. Short of a > re-write, I doubt they will care beyond that limited correction, but it > does show they screwed up at least. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
