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MacHeist 2:Malcor
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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macheist#MacHeist_II):
MacHeist II began in Nov. 2007 with the creation of a character named Malcor, a genius computer hacker with a grudge against "Apple fanbois." As a prank, the owners of a number of small Apple-related blogs (aka "fanbois") were contacted by Philip Ryu and and asked to participate in the MacHeist II marketing scheme. On Nov. 16, glennwolsey.com was defaced for 24hrs with the image of a rotting apple. The site was hosted by Media Temple and runs the wordpress blogging engine. Both Media Temple and the site designer, Andreas Lengyel, were apparently unaware that Glenn Wolsey had given control of his site to a 3rd party. However, during the ensuing investigation, they quickly discovered the malcor was a phony. E-mail requests sent to Media Temple were ignored while those sent to Glenn Wolsey suggested an ongoing investigation.
A few days later, the macapper.com site was defaced and the site owner, Miles Evans, wrote that the hack due to a Wordpress vulnerability.
It is worth noting that Glenn, Miles and Andreas are all involved in the macapper.com site. Again, the parties involved remained silent and allowed the situation to escalate, both within the Apple and OS developer community.
Finally, applematters.com and iphonematters.com were defaced. In this case, however, their hosting company (EngineHosting) immediately took the site down and began an investigation. When they discovered the prank, they notified both their clients and the public that neither their commercial product (Expression Engine) or their hosting service were vulnerable to this attack. Subsequently, Hadley Stern apologized and admitted the hoax.
Over the following 24hrs, the owners of macapper.com, macheist.com and glennwolsey.com posted explanations of their involvement. Despite renewed calls for a boycott, the MacHeist owners have hinted that the MacHeist II software bundle will become available on January 9th, 2008. Few details beyond this have been publicly released. The second mission of Heist II is currently underway.
