DNS Attack Writer a Victim of His Own Creation

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."

Comments

Re:Did he take it well?

[hullabalucination]

To be fair, American comedian Dick Shawn also died on stage (1987, San Diego) and this audience also didn't respond for several minutes:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn#Death_on_stage

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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
—Groucho Marx

Re:Did he take it well?

[raddan]

Wait, you guys invented the smashing guitars trick. As is our ilk, we just capitalized on it.