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Vulnerability in virtualization app wipes out 100,000 sites

Vaserve, a UK webhosting company says that 100,000 of its customer sites were wiped out in what looks like a zero day attack on HyperVM, a virtualization application they used. The HyperVM was a product of lxlabs.

http://www.veracode.com/blog/2009/06/vulnerability-in-virtualizatio...

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Comment by Sam Hennessy on June 10, 2009 at 11:59am: Wow, that is amazingly tragic! None of that was worth a life, but it sounds like he's from a troubled family life. So maybe this was just the straw that broke the camels back so to speck. I feel sorry for the guy the released the vulnerabilities, I'm sure he felt he was doing the right thing, now he has this on his conscience.

Sam

Comment by Wil Sinclair on June 10, 2009 at 11:27am: Yikes! It looks like the head of LxLabs hanged himself over this!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/

,Wil

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