DNS Attack Writer a Victim of His Own Creation 196
BobB writes "HD Moore has been owned. 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."
Did he take it well? (Score:5, Funny)
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Good (Score:4, Funny)
Serves him right.
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:4, Funny)
I can't decide whether to be offended or just laugh...
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:4, Funny)
you forgot, "as he pet his white cat and the satellite dish that made up 90% of his secret lair exploded around him."
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:5, Funny)
You're forgetting - he is one of these emotional American types
Wait! Are you saying that Americans are emotional! WTF, man! We are not fscking emotional!!! Gods, those Brits make me MAD AS HELL!! And I'm NOT going to take it anymore!!!
In the words of the Bard ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:5, Funny)
"Gentlemen, we're receiving this morning's stock broadcast on the ticker machine."
"What! Our stock values are tumbling! What the devil is going on, Mr. Smith?"
"Why, I believe some monstrous rascal has been at our wires! I do believe we've been owned, Mr. Jones."
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm tagging this article "irony" because it is the very definition of the word...
Re:Dutch sayings rule (Score:4, Funny)
Really this proverb is best portrayed by the timeless coyote chasing the road runner cartoons.
Re:Tag (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:0, Funny)
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Re:BEHOLD (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah.. it'd be more like the US getting attacked by weapons they made and sold to Iraq or something... oh hang on..
Re:Take note (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:3, Funny)
Like Naomi Campbell?
Owned (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:5, Funny)
I know! Let's go throw so freaking tea in the ocean. We'll show them!
Re:Karma (Score:2, Funny)
Awwwwwww!
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Re:I would post a comment... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In the words of the Bard ... (Score:5, Funny)
For tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his owne petard.
Fixed it for you.
-- Old English Grammar Nazi
Re:Dutch sayings rule (Score:3, Funny)
Saying #1: Jesus to Peter after Peter had sliced the ear off of the slave Malchus.
Saying #2: ????
Saying #3: Galatians 6:7... though I was really tempted to say PROFIT!!!
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:5, Funny)
Not true. I heard that a stand up comedian in London died on stage, and nobody noticed until the corpse went cold.
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:3, Funny)
...?
well?
WHAT word?
Don't leave me hanging like this!
Re:In the words of the Bard ... (Score:4, Funny)
For tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his owne petard.
Fixed it for you.
-- Olde English Grammar Nazi
Fixed it for thou.
Fixed it for thou.
Re:In the words of the Bard ... (Score:5, Funny)
For tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his owne petard.
Fixed it for you.
-- Olde English Grammar Nazi
Fixed it for thou.
Fixed it for thee.
Fixed it for thee.
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:3, Funny)
I know! Let's go throw so freaking tea in the ocean. We'll show them!
Jolly good show.
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Did he take it well? (Score:1, Funny)
Eating appraisers? I thought cannibalism was highly un-traditional, at least in most English-speaking countries.
Besides, I think appraisers would taste awful. Like dusty cardboard.