rootkit.com down

[SystemJunkie]

Rootkit.com is down, ping not possible.
Prove:
http://i28.tinypic.com/nb1wzt.png

[lucas1985]

Down here too (South America) :)

[Meriadoc]

Not been able to get there and sign in for a day now.

[SystemJunkie]

uh... someone hacked rootkit.com.. ... looool .. Security news tomorrow: "Nemesis is coming!" (lool)

The side is so damn static that one has the impression that for the last 5 years nothing much has happened. Always the old hxdef, fu stuff but nothing really new. It would need by far more samples and downloads. Absolutely no variations. This vice stuff is so old so old... where is something new?
We still have seen no shadow walker exe. Probably the real name should be rootkitbloggerfanscom.
Maybe this is the reason why it is down.

[SystemJunkie]

4 days later rootkit.com still down... very interesting.:o

[SystemJunkie]

This happened already 3 years ago..very interesting:
-{ Quote: " 12 April 2005 Security websites taken down by unhappy hackers

Rootkit.com, an established website run by security expert Greg Hoglund, has been offline for almost a week. Two other sites, operated by a prominent rootkit author known as "Holy Father" have also been taken down in the attacks, which are believed to be the work of a group of Bulgarian and Turkish hackers known as the SIS-Team.

In the flame war that erupted between the SIS-Team members and the rootkit.com contributors, questions were also raised about the quality of the SIS-Team products. Some rootkit.com regulars alleged that the tools were poorly written and frequently crashed machines they ran on, Hoglund said.

Within hours of the first post from ATmaCA, the rootkit.com website was under attack by a network of more than 500 compromised computers, or bots, that flooded the site with about 170,000 requests a second, making it unreachable for most Internet users, he said.
Two rootkit-focused websites operated by Holy Father were also downed by DDoS attack after that person posted remarks critical of ATmaCA and SIS-Team.

Hoglund is angry and unrepentant: "I find it very offensive that a public website that does nothing but share information is attacked by a bunch of immature children. These are hackers who can't stand on their own merits. They make claims for their software, and then can't argue about it, but just DDoS their critics off the Internet." Source: Techworld.com" }-

Already 6 days down! Looks like a serious attack on the other hand it calms that even the most sophisticated pro´s are subject to hack attacks. The final insight: Knowledge and experience don´t count a penny when evil starts hitting.