Web site hacker world No. 1 was ... hacked

The website of the security-pro-security consultant from hackers-notorious has just been attacked. The culprit left a message with the words of a rude provocation.

  Instead of the familiar description of Kevin Mitnick, his books and consulting services, this reputable hacker website came up with a vulgar message throughout the day.

The culprit - apparently coming from Pakistan, successfully infiltrated Mitnick's web hosting server and replaced the home page interface. As a result, four Web addresses owned by Mitnick, including KevinMitnick.com and MitnickSecurity.com, displayed the same vulgar text, cursing both Mitnick and hacking techniques.

Kevin Mitnick. Source: Security Labs

The photo Kevin Mitnick was edited by a hacker and left on the website interface that was defaced.Source: zone-h.org

" The hosting provider for my site was attacked but luckily, I didn't save any confidential information on it, so the consequences are not serious. Of course, being defaced is embarrassing. - anyone likes it, "Mitnick shrugged.

For a lot of people, Mitnick is the king of hacker circles. He was arrested by the FBI in 1995 after infiltrating the computer network of the world's largest multinational organizations and corporations. After leaving prison, Mitnick became a consultant again, wrote 2 books and spent most of his time attending international security conferences.

Mitnick said he learned about the attack quite early. The attackers won full control over the hosting server at Hostedhere. Inside the server, there are many other websites, but only Mitnick's website is defaced. This shows that Mitnick is probably their goal.

Deface attacks often occur like meals, but in the past few years, attention has been given to them for more beneficial attacks.

Until now, Mitnick still didn't know how the server containing his website was taken down. " Probably because the security hole inside a" neighbor "website was open to an attacker to hack into the server, " Mitnick conjectured.

" When you have rented a host, you have to suck up the Sapindales sweetened with their security status. If you want to tighten your defense, you have to build a website from AZ and I don't have time time for maintenance for a website ".

This is not the first time a Mitnick website has been defaced. Three years ago, a website created by Mitnick supporters was attacked many times. However, at that time, Mitnick was not involved in running any site because he was still being banned from using computers on court orders.

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