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HyperVM Flaw Leads to 100,000 Lost Sites, CEO Kills Himself

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Post June 9th, 2009, 11:59 am

Now here's something you don't see every day.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ wrote:
The boss of Indian software firm LxLabs was found dead in a suspected suicide on Monday.

Reports of the death of K T Ligesh, 32, come in the wake of the exploitation of a critical vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application made by LXLabs, to wipe out data on 100,000 sites hosted by the UK web hosting firm VAserv.


Talk about a guarantee of quality, hooray for outsourcing !
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Post June 9th, 2009, 11:59 am

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Post June 13th, 2009, 8:55 am

:( Yes a tragedy
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Post June 18th, 2009, 6:54 pm

Thanks for sharing. it's great. :P

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Post July 7th, 2009, 3:00 pm

kennedyusa058 wrote:
Thanks for sharing. it's great. :P


Am I hallucinating what you actually posted? It must be just spam, since you have a hidden link in your post.

Anyway, while my company LogicWeb never user HyperVM in our services I must say I feel terribly sorry for the late CEO. I also feel sorry for all those web host providers and businesses that were affected by this flaw.

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