SecurityFocus.com: SourceForge, Apache hacker: Nothing personal, it just worked out that way.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 9, 2001

[ Thanks to Joe
Barr
for this link. ]

Fluffy Bunny is the person who compromised SourceForge,
Apache.org, and themes.org. Joe Barr managed an IRC interview with
someone who purports to be Fluffy Bunny and learned that the
cracker’s motivation for compromising the sites was among the most
pragmatic: they were there.

“…In an online IRC interview, the cracker known
ominously as “Fluffy Bunny” characterized his attacks as a strike
against public disclosure of security holes. “i hack, dot slash or
whatever you might want to call it, i do not write my own exploits,
i use other people’s stuff, and no im not anti-open source, i am
however anti-sec. i support the anti-disclosure movement among the
computer and network security communities,” Bunny wrote.

Of Fluffy Bunny’s recent victims, only VA Linux’s Themes.org
site is still down, closed for “technical problems.” The company
says it cannot comment until an investigation is completed.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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