Re: Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His OwnCreat ion

["Steve Manzuik" <smanzuik () juniper net>]

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: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of robert_mcmillan () idg com
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:23 PM
To: jericho () attrition org
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org; funsec-bounces () linuxbox org;
pcwletters () pcworld com
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.

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