Sunday, August 27, 2006

Most Famous Hacker has his website Hacked

I was looking around in webhostingtalk.com when I came across the story of Kevin Mitnick having his own website hacked this weekend. Mitnick's site is an obvious target. Most likely his site was hacked because one of his webhosting neighbors had vulnerable outdated PHP scripts on their site which allowed intruders to get in and deface Mitnick's website.

Last I recall reading about Mitnick was after his serving 5 years for his computer crimes, he was not allowed to use a computer. As his now cleaned up site indicates, he is a consultant and public speaker on computer security. How time flies ...