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Bye milw0rm?

July 7th, 2009 by Aviram, Filed under: Web, Commentary, Full Disclosure, Culture

I saw a message from Jericho giving his goodbyes to str0ke, and had to see it for myself. Indeed:

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

We all hope it’s just temporary and str0ke will bounce back. And  if that doesn’t happen, hopefully someone else will pick it up and continue. It’s a thankless job of tedious work but it gives “the good guys” a fighting chance by putting together in an organized manner things that are already know to the bad people out there.

Hopefully this is not a farewell, but if it is, milw0rm will be missed.

Readers: If you have suggestions for good exploit archives (other than this exploit archive, of course) that should go on the bookmark list where milw0rm was, please post in the comments below.

Update: Good news. As several of you noted, str0ke decided to keep on going. More information here.

Update 2: As of October 2009 they seem to be down again.

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15 Comments:

  1. Andre Gironda, on July 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am Said:

    Uh… PacketStorm…
    And these:
    http://www.secwatch.org/exploits/
    http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/?showforum=26

  2. Aviram, on July 8th, 2009 at 1:37 am Said:

    @Andre - naturally Packetstorm. No doubt about that. Thanks for the other links - although I believe secwatch.org is not a public archive.

  3. anon, on July 8th, 2009 at 6:24 am Said:

    It’s due to pressure from the FBI. It’s hosted in the USA, what did he think was going to happen?

  4. Urgentguy, on July 8th, 2009 at 9:48 am Said:

    What FBI ?
    milw0rms been running since so many years. Did FBI wake up today ?

  5. anonymous, on July 8th, 2009 at 12:10 pm Said:

    Though milw0rm much better than hack.co.za :)

  6. anonymous, on July 8th, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said:

    Why would the FBI pressure milw0rm owners? It helps the industry more than it hurts, and that include govts.

  7. Sickurity, on July 8th, 2009 at 10:36 pm Said:

    Sickurity.com ….

  8. sh4dy, on July 9th, 2009 at 3:50 am Said:

    dude i just found this googling
    http://www.0xbugs.com

  9. Wazza, on July 9th, 2009 at 1:42 pm Said:

    http://inj3ct0r.com/

  10. phenyll, on July 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm Said:

    .. also packetstorm.. i cant think of another one that good..

    i guess i wont be the only person missing such an important website.

    I hope there’s somebody to continue it.

  11. eXe, on July 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pm Said:

    i can host it in croatia…here people doesnt care about botnets :)

  12. sh4dy, on July 10th, 2009 at 1:41 am Said:

    its back up!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. ThEpUnIsHeR, on July 10th, 2009 at 1:18 pm Said:

    HAY ST0RK I M PUNISHER I JUST WANNA SAY WE WILL MISS THOES DAYS MAN .>>>> HOPE U RETURN .

  14. milw0rm is dead, inj3ct0r is born!, on July 10th, 2009 at 11:17 pm Said:

    milw0rm is dead, inj3ct0r is born! New milw0rm str0ke project

    Inj3ct0r - exploits : vulnerabilities : 0day : bugtrack : shellcode
    http://inj3ct0r.com or http://inj3ct0r.org

    inj3ct0r.org
    Informaciя o domen INJ3CT0R.COM

    Domennoe imя inj3ct0r.com

    Domain Name: INJ3CT0R.COM http://inj3ct0r.com

    Registrant:
    milw0rm now at inj3ct0r.com
    str0ke aka r00t0ro0t3r
    Burdenko 43
    inj3ct0r
    Adana,123000
    TR
    Tel. +7.4953216549

  15. Secial K, on July 11th, 2009 at 7:37 am Said:

    No more header/footer and the MS 0day… not so dead after all?!

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