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Source: Wired - Posted by Bill Keys   
Hacks/Cracks Monday morning, Metasploit.com was temporarily hijacked using an attack on the local area network of Metasploit's hosting provider. Using what is technically known as ARP spoofing, the attacker was able to intercept visitors to Metasploit.com, and instead serve them up a page saying the site had been "hacked by sunwear ! just for fun. Users were then redirected to a Chinese forum with an image of the hack.

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sunwear is a good chinese hackerWritten by pitter on 2008-06-08 20:57:29
sunwear is a good chinese hacker

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