Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Mitnick Hacked’

Kevin Mitnick Says FireHost is the Best Option for Preventing Future Website Attacks

by FireHost Evangelist on July 30th, 2009

mitnickFireHostThe news is out. Kevin Mitnick has selected us to be his secure hosting provider.

His website has been successfully compromised and defaced by blackhat hackers four times in the past. Mitnick recognizes that his high-profile and the nature of his security consulting business make protecting his websites a challenge, but he feels confident in our ability to lockdown his server and provide custom, secure hosting solutions tailored to his needs.

“I’ve made it clear to every hosting company that’s ever approached me that protecting my sites from hackers is an extraordinary job. FireHost is the only secure hosting company able to show me that they actually do have the goods to get the job done,” said Kevin Mitnick. “I feel confident with this decision and hope I won’t ever again have to deal with my sites being attacked in such a way.”

Our CEO and founder, Chris Drake goes on to say, “There are two kinds of hackers in the world, the egomaniacs that  deface high profile people like Kevin Mitnick and the malicious hackers who go after confidential data en masse. FireHost is the only secure hosting company that’s protecting companies from both and Mitnick recognizes this. We know we have a challenge in front of us, but feel very confident in our ability to offer the best protection available.”

As Mitnick Knows, Security Not Always in Your Control

by FireHost Evangelist on June 30th, 2009

Kevin Mitnick, the most well known hacker of the 1990′s had his personal and business websites compromised and defaced recently, and if you query Mitnick’s domain today, you still see remnants of the hack. Words like:mitnickHacked2

$ whois mitnicksecurity.com

MITNICKSECURITY.COM.HACKED.BY.NERD.FROM.WEB-HACK.COM
MITNICKSECURITY.COM

In a phone conversation today, Mitnick disclosed to FireHost’s Chief Security Officer that he was using secure hosting practices on his site, but the hackers got to his website through his hosting company’s DNS provider. They compromised the control panel for his domain names and redirected his site to a defaced version.

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