che
09-24-07, 10:16 PM
Source Code for MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
Hackers who seized more than 6,000 internal company e-mails from anti-piracy company
MediaDefender, have made good on their promise to release additional material from the company.
Today's trove includes source code for dozens of tools MediaDefender uses (or, perhaps, used to
use) to thwart the trading of copyrighted content on file-sharing networks. These include tools like
BTSeedInflator and BTDecoyClient that target the BitTorrent network.
The code is a boon to admins on the targeted file-sharing networks since it exposes
MediaDefender's methods for seeding the networks with decoy files and, therefore, will help the
admins combat those strategies.
Ernesto at TorrentFreak was, once again, the first to hear about the new leak of MediaDefender
data. Ernesto has been on top of the MediaDefender story for months, having first discovered in
July that MediaDefender was secretly operating a download site to catch users trading in illegal
content. After he exposed this information, a hacker or group of hackers who go by the name
MediaDefender-Defenders e-mailed him last Saturday telling him that they had seized thousands of
internal MediaDefender e-mails and had released them to the BitTorrent network.
A day later, the same group released the content of a database seized from a MediaDefender
company server as well as a recording from a conference call that appears to be between a
MediaDefender employee and investigators with the New York attorney general's office. The parties
speaking on the call discussed a secret project that MediaDefender was working on with the law
enforcement investigators to troll file-sharing networks for people trading in child porn.
According to notes the hackers have included with some of their data dumps, they've been inside
MediaDefenders computer network -- and possibly its phone system -- for nine months. More data
is likely to come.
Source (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/source-code-for.html)
Hackers who seized more than 6,000 internal company e-mails from anti-piracy company
MediaDefender, have made good on their promise to release additional material from the company.
Today's trove includes source code for dozens of tools MediaDefender uses (or, perhaps, used to
use) to thwart the trading of copyrighted content on file-sharing networks. These include tools like
BTSeedInflator and BTDecoyClient that target the BitTorrent network.
The code is a boon to admins on the targeted file-sharing networks since it exposes
MediaDefender's methods for seeding the networks with decoy files and, therefore, will help the
admins combat those strategies.
Ernesto at TorrentFreak was, once again, the first to hear about the new leak of MediaDefender
data. Ernesto has been on top of the MediaDefender story for months, having first discovered in
July that MediaDefender was secretly operating a download site to catch users trading in illegal
content. After he exposed this information, a hacker or group of hackers who go by the name
MediaDefender-Defenders e-mailed him last Saturday telling him that they had seized thousands of
internal MediaDefender e-mails and had released them to the BitTorrent network.
A day later, the same group released the content of a database seized from a MediaDefender
company server as well as a recording from a conference call that appears to be between a
MediaDefender employee and investigators with the New York attorney general's office. The parties
speaking on the call discussed a secret project that MediaDefender was working on with the law
enforcement investigators to troll file-sharing networks for people trading in child porn.
According to notes the hackers have included with some of their data dumps, they've been inside
MediaDefenders computer network -- and possibly its phone system -- for nine months. More data
is likely to come.
Source (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/source-code-for.html)