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Security Flaw Hits VAserv; Head of LxLabs Found Hanged
Keldrin_1 writes "The discovery of 24 security vulnerabilities may have contributed to the death of the chief of LxLabs. A flaw in the company's HyperVM software allowed data on 100,000 sites, all hosted by VAserv, to be destroyed. The HyperVM solution is popular with cheap web hosting services and the attacks are easy to reproduce, which could lead to further incidents."
whoops
-SaNo
That's one way to dodge all those bug reports...
Skiffy is Spiffy, but Ort is tort.
Yah, but once you're in the ground, how do you dodge the bugs then?
Hopefully the sites lost were those abandoned blogs, even better if they were active blogs.
That's like putting your mission critical servers in a garden shed with holes in the roof.
What??? It's not a cheap way to get my server water cooled???
Could this explain my high hardware failure?
Can you imagine if a Microsoft executive hung himself every time a vulnerability was discovered in Windows that led to data loss?
Civilization has always been a thin veneer on top of barbarism, and it barely keeps our worst instincts in check.
Yes, but if you look under the Barbarism, you actually find two layers of humanitarianism.
You don't need a sense of despair; just a good belt sander.
People are in strange moods today. Here I am expecting offtopic/funny/maybe redundant, and I get flamebait/interesting. Go figure.
Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you...
Some rather unpleasant comments coming off of you lot.
The poor chap sounds like he'd had a bad decade, and this just topped it off.
When your business collapses overnight (which is what happened here), you're facing god knows how many lawsuits (which is what would have happened here) and the people you'd turn to for support are dead... Well, I'd imagine what follows are some rather sobering thoughts.
My heart goes out to his remaining family, and those of you modded "Funny" should go gargle some engine coolant.
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
http://www.vaserv.com/
Because we can't really be sure if it is this one or some other link like these:
http://www.vaserv.com/index1.html
http://www.vaserv.com/index2.html
http://support.vaserv.com/
Can't really be sure... keep hitting the refresh but nothing changes.
Here is the status page, for anyone who is interested.
After reading the headline "Head of LxLabs found hanged" I was sortof hoping "Head of LxLabs" was some sort of master node and it just needed a power cycle...
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
So, you're saying his whole family is well-hung.
My opinion is suggesting someone work at McDonalds, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, is about as cold hearted as suggesting someone work at a call center, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, more or less for the same business reasons.
I've worked at both McDonalds and a call center, and I'm an American citizen.
I think your definition of "virtual impossibility" is similar to VAserve's definition of "virtual machine security".
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Let me rephrase what you just said:
Death is not funny.
Anyone who thinks it is should go die.
That about sum it up?
Hmmm. Now can you come up with a solution that geeks can actually use in the real world?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I require experimental evidence of this. Send me a dozen for testing purposes.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I am Mexican, you idiot! ...and I live in Mexico, before you reply with more racist stupidities
Well go back to... erm...
Wait...
Stop taking my Mexican jobs!
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey