| Kevin Mitnick creampied by Pakistani rage |
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| Written by Roberto Preatoni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 21 August 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A group of Pakistani crackers vandalized today the websites of 4 different Kevin Mitnick's ventures, in what it looks like to be a focused personal attack. The sites defensivethinking.com, mitsec.com, kevinmitnick.com and mitnicksecurity.com have been defaced with offensive messages against his person. But Kevin Mitnick is not new to this kind of attentions from the defacer's world...
Apparently the attackers performed a Mitnick-targeted mass defacement, no details yet about the intrusion methodology and motivation even if the latter one can be easily understood just by reading the offensive messages posted on the defacements (directed against the general white-hat category)
Kevin Mitnick though is not new to such kind of treatements. Right after he was released from the computer ban imposed by US authorities, he opened the defensivethinking.com company which website was defaced repeatedly by different crackers, that time more as a "welcome back Kevin" message. Zone-H has a backlog of such episodes as well:
At that time, Mitnick's website was repeatedly defaced, despite Mitnick moved the website from hosting company to hosting company, due to misconfigured FrontPage extensions. At that time Zone-H witnessed a kind of struggle between different defacers who were trying to put their nicknames on Mitnick's homepage and Mitnick's fans who were continuing to replace the defaced page with a copy of the original one, always taking advantage of the same FrontPage misconfiguration. The whole thing went on a full day... Coming back to today's attacks it's not clear if the crackers went through a Mitnick's site hole or if they abused of some other sites (without reporting them) as it appears that the same IP is hosting also other websites, one of which was defaced a month ago.
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Kevin Mitnick, the infamous cracker specialized in social engineering techniques whose life 
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