Decius wrote:
] ] Mitnick said Monday that the hackers apparently exploited
] ] separate flaws in Internet server software from
] ] Microsoft. The person responsible for the company's
] ] website failed to apply the repairing patches available
] ] from Microsoft, Mitnick said.
]
] Mitnick's site is on a shared hosting provider who runs IIS.
] Where has this guy been?! Oh... Yeah... Nevermind...

It's easy to see why Mitnik isn't too concerned. After all, these hacks didn't cause any damage or information leaks, so it merely alerted him to a hole in his security. In the end, he will have learned from this and make his site more secure. That's the whole point of white hat hackers.
-Jon

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