Kevin Mitnick dumped by ISP after attacks
by xrammyx on Aug.04, 2009, under My World
"They kicked me off," Mitnick says, noting he doesn’t begrudge Hostedhere.net, which he used for five years. But after a number of break-ins that targeted the former hacker, "they decided it wasn’t cost-effective to keep me around," Mitnick says, adding, "I’m a target," mostly for those who want to play "king of the hill" by hacking someone once known as a notorious hacker.
Reports surfaced during last week’s Black Hat conference that Mitnick and other security experts had their websites hacked.
But Mitnick hasn’t been left Webless. FireHost has stepped in to offer Mitnick a refuge for the basic advertising he does online for his consultancy, Mitnick Security Consulting LLC.
FireHost provides hosting that uses what CEO Chris Drake claims are better defence measures – provided to all its customers – than might be found at the typical web-hosting firm.
FireHost makes use of the Imperva application firewall to defend against SQL injection, cross-site scripting and other application-layer attacks. The firm also makes use of home-grown Snort-based tools and Top Layer’s security device to mitigate against denial-of-service attacks, intrusion-prevention and to scan for possible infected web pages.
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