Cryptome Hit By Blackhole Exploit Kit

Posted by Unknown on Monday February 13, 2012 @11:48AM from the leaks-were-sleeping-around dept.

wiredmikey writes with an excerpt from Security Week:"Whistleblower site Cryptome has been hacked and infected by the Blackhole exploit kit. ... Cryptome co-founder John Young however told SecurityWeek that the Cryptome site is in the process of cleaning everything up, and that process should be finished by the end of the day. Founded in 1996, Cryptome publishes thousands of documents, including many related to national security, law enforcement and military. On Feb. 12, a reader advised the site that accessing a file had triggered a warning in their antivirus about the Blackhole exploit kit. ... Subsequent analysis found thousands of files on the site had been infected." Cryptome has certainly seen worse.

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Re:Blackhole by smudj · 2012-02-13 12:26 · Score: 2, Insightful

Not sure if I would consider Symantec an "expert" in antivirus/anti-intrusion solutions any longer
Don't criticize, do it ! by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-02-13 12:46 · Score: 2, Insightful

If you can set up a public website so secure that no hacker can ever hack, why don't you set one up?
Instead of criticize, why don't you show the world that such a site is indeed possible?
Maybe you can even make a buck or two out of it

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Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
1. Re:Don't criticize, do it ! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-13 19:37 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  "Formally verified web servers have been around for a while."
  This reminds me of Knuth's famous quote about some code he released:
  "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."