[Am-info] Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick gets hacked
Mitch Stone
mitch@accidentalexpert.com
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:03:02 -0800
Will this prove to be a setback for Mitnick's new career as a computer
security guru?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/11/hacker.hacked.ap/index.html
Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick gets hacked
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Posted: 10:02 AM EST (1502 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's best-known computer hacker suffered the
indignity of having someone break into his new security consulting
company's Web site. But Kevin Mitnick shrugged it off as "quite
amusing," not serious enough for him to call the FBI.
[...]
Mitnick said Monday that the hackers apparently exploited separate
flaws in Internet server software from Microsoft Corp. The person
responsible for the company's Web site failed to apply the repairing
patches available from Microsoft, Mitnick said.