Submission + - Security Flaw Hits VAserv - Head of LxLabs Hangs

Submitted by Keldrin_1 on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @08:51AM

Keldrin_1 writes: The discovery of 24 security vulnerabilities may have contributed to the death of the chief of LxLabs. A flaw in the companies HyperVM software allowed data on 100,000 sites, all hosted by VAserv, to be destroyed. The HyperVM solution is popular with cheap web hosting services and the attacks are easy to reproduce, which could lead to further incidents.

Comment Inevitable Discovery (Score 4, Funny) 220

by supafly613 on Thursday June 29, 2006 @06:17AM (#15626785) Attached to: Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth

This was a 2 phase discovery:

Phase 1 - Invent a sport where a piece of equipment that, at times, travels towards your face at 160 km/hour and weighs only 170 grams.

Phase 2 - Invent a way to grow teeth back due to resulting injury from Phase 1

It's a Canadian make-work program :)

Submission + - Security Flaw Hits VAserv - Head of LxLabs Hangs

Comment Inevitable Discovery (Score 4, Funny) 220

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