Neowin ferme... à cause d'un hacker [MAJ]

Neowin, un des sites les plus populaires chez nos confrères anglophones, vient juste de fermer. La raison ? Un membre qui menaçait une attaque de type DoS (denial of service). De plus en plus de menaces et d'actes sont apparus depuis janvier, sous l'influence d'un gamin qui ne peut pas utiliser ses compétences à une juste cause ! Malgré le fait que Neowin ait alerté les autorités, rien n'a changé et le hacker a continué malgré tout à hacker Neowin et certains autres sites...

De par l'impuissance des autorités et la bêtise des gens, c'est un autre site qui s'en va, site qui comptait quand même 30000 membres...

Voici ce qu'à dit l'administrateur :

This morning when I woke up I was met with an array of problems on the site due to the fact that a member was threatening DoS (denial of service) attacks towards Neowin. This has become a tiring re-occurring problem on Neowin since January instigated by a kid with too much power and no sense to put those skills to a good cause. Despite pleas with hosts and authorities this kid has got away with his unlawful activities against Neowin and many other sites (some affiliated with neowin) and continues to control a large botnet. Due to the fact that this kid has again seen fit to use his army of bots against my site and we are powerless to stop it we have decided to close down. We informed Rackshack to power down our server until further notice.

This decision wasn't easy, Neowin has been my life for the better part of 3 years, We have dedicated that time to help people and to help people stay informed about the latest news and releases for the IT sector. We don't get paid, we don't force anything on our members yet we are treated like this by a kid who doesn't even know us personally.

I am sad that one child can have so much influence on the web that he can destroy a service we offered for free to over 30,000 registrations. I have posted his details on our Neowin MSN community, you can view that here. I just want to close this message by saying thanks for your continued support over the last 3 years.

Neowin Admins

Source : W2S

MAJ : Le site Neowin a réouvert ses portes... J'admire la persévérence de l'admin en tout cas, et espérons que ces attaques cesseront pour de bon !
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Rédigée le samedi 9 août 2003 à 21h50 par Michaël Mulkens
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