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collinp
June 9th, 2009, 07:23 PM
"The discovery of 24 security vulnerabilities may have contributed to the death (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/) of the chief of LxLabs. A flaw in the company's HyperVM software allowed data on 100,000 sites, all hosted by VAserv, to be destroyed (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/webhost_attack/). The HyperVM solution is popular with cheap web hosting services and the attacks are easy to reproduce (http://isc.sans.org/), which could lead to further incidents."

From http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/09/1422200/Security-Flaw-Hits-VAserv-Head-of-LxLabs-Found-Hanged

Sucks that things like this happen.

pwnst*r
June 9th, 2009, 07:41 PM
damn =[

dig into some of those comments and it looks like it may not be work-related after all.

Sealbhach
June 9th, 2009, 07:44 PM
Tragic. It seems there were other suicides in his family some years back. Very sad.


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collinp
June 9th, 2009, 09:51 PM
Tragic. It seems there were other suicides in his family some years back. Very sad.

I have to wonder why his family has a high amount of suicide-related deaths?