http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/08/matrix_hacker_site_defacement_spat/ By John Leyden The Register 8th April 2010 Rival hackers are duking it out on the site of Matrix actor Harry Lennix. Lennix, who played Commander Lock in the second two films of the Matrix trilogy and more recently played Boyd in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, maintains the site harrylennix.com. The site was defaced last week, and just a few days later was sprayed with digital graffiti by another rascal. The second hacker posted claims that the first (SnazzyG) had bought access to the compromised site without actually doing any hacking. "It appears Defacer A didn.t deface anything . merely purchased (or attempted to purchase) the already compromised site from Defacer B, then went on to brag about how they.d hijacked a 'famous actor'," explains Chris Boyd, a security consultant at Sunbelt Software. "Cue Defacer B reclaiming their territory and making sure everybody knew about it at the same time." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Thu Apr 08 2010 - 22:19:31 PDT
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