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Old 06-10-2009, 01:28 PM   #1
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Webhost hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/webhost_attack/

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A large internet service provider said data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.

Technicians at UK-based Vaserv.com were still scrambling to recover data on Monday evening UK time, more than 24 hours after unknown hackers were able to gain root access to the company's system, Rus Foster, the company's director told The Register. He said the attackers were able to penetrate his servers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in HyperVM....

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Old 06-10-2009, 01:30 PM   #2
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welcome to last week.

the creator of the hacked software also killed himself in the last week.
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Old 06-10-2009, 01:32 PM   #3
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welcome to last week.

the creator of the hacked software also killed himself in the last week.
David Carradine hacked that server????
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Old 06-10-2009, 01:36 PM   #4
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no not the actor the software developer that made the software that got hacked offed himself.



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Old 06-10-2009, 01:41 PM   #6
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no not the actor the software developer that made the software that got hacked offed himself.
his name was david carradine too?
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is that for real? I mean, the guy killing himself?
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Wow that sounds like a fucking disaster. Who in the fuck runs that kind of operation without backups? The guy seriously killed himself? Wow, just wow...
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no not the actor the software developer that made the software that got hacked offed himself.
what software was it?
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no it was not.


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the software is low cost vps software used by 99% of the cheapest vps providers most cheap providers offer backups as an added service its not a standard feature and most people are stupid and dont make backups.


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Hyper VM link to owners death http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06..._funder_death/


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