A group of hackers have appeared online once again, selling source code to some of the worlds most used and expensive software. According to messages posted in online discussion groups, the group is offering the code for
Cisco Systems' PIX firewall software for
$24,000. While this seems like a very high price, a lot of
intelligence agencies and
Government agencies may be interested to purchase it just to find out exactly what it does. The group advertised its return by sending messages to online security discussion groups.
The group first surfaced in July claiming it was selling
"corporate Intel(ligence)" to its customers. The club offered the
Enterasys Dragon IDS 6.1 source code for
$16,000 and the code for file sharing software from
Napster, now part of
Roxio, for
$10,000. However the operation was shut down citing a
"redesign" of its
"business model." Now that the group is back they raised the price on the Enterasys and Napster code, to
$19,200 and
$12,000 respectively.
Source:
PC World
Written by: James Delahunty @ 3 Nov 2004 9:07
