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Milw0rm Shut Down By Owner (74.125.47.132)
31 points by tsally on July 8, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments


This is really too bad. I always went to milw0rm first -- even before SANS, etc. simply because I preferred to see the exploits in code. It is one thing to hear how an exploit works, but by actually seeing the zero-days I think it makes you a better pen tester and allows you to absorb some of the style and analytic thought that went into discovering the vulnerability.

I assume someone will take up the slack though. milw0rm was great, but there really wasn't anything that special. If nothing else, we still have metasploit.


+1


Link is to the Google cache with the following message:

"Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don't :(. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours (taking off weekends) isn't fair to the authors on this site. I appreciate and thank everyone for their support in the past. Be safe, /str0ke"

It's been written about on several sites as well:

http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/07/milw0rm_clo...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Milw0rm-To-Shut-Down-116112.s...


Are there any others like it that also post the code?


Is this a white hat site? Are the exploits posted without notice to the newly exploitable? I am obviously not a security guy, anyone here know more about?


It's kinda a script kiddie site that definitely is not blackhat

edit: to clarify it may be used by security professionals but there is no doubt in my mind that it was indeed a script kiddie site especially considering the coverage it got in that community and the hate that incurred from the blackhat community


It's a zero-day exploit site. Whether or not it's used by script kiddies is irrelevant. It's very often used by security professionals as well.


The anti-secs will be happy.


now zero-days can be really called zero-days, and would have much more value unless another milw0rm like website comes up to dilute the power of zero-days.


It is back up again now...


More details:

"milw0rm's back up & posting will start once again, I can't let all of the emails in my submit box to just sit there." - str0ke

Source: http://twitter.com/str0ke/status/2550494236


It is b




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