> > However, you could acknowledge that we were not the
> > only one at the same time. Untold security companies
> > and  sites were defaced  by PoizonB0x and others
> > in that very same period. Including: SecurityNewsportal, CNet,
> > Attrition, Lucent. Microsoft (18 times in total?), SANS,
> > CERT,  SecurityFocus and many others.
>
> Was SecurityFocus actually defaced?  I thought they wacked an add server
> that then placed a hacked banner on the SF site.  I could be wrong though.

Defaced, yes.   Compromised, no.
http://www.attrition.org/security/commentary/secfocus.html

See http://www.attrition.org/errata/irony.html for similar amusement ;-)
Also see the ton of RFC1918 addresses and MTA banners littering the SMTP
headers of "security" firms on this list...

Cheers.


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