(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HostedHere (www.hostedhere.net), the longtime hosting provider for convicted hacker turned security expert, Kevin Mitnick, recently informed him it no longer wants to provide service for his website, MitnickSecurity.com (www.mitnicksecurity.com), according to a report by The Register.
The web host explains that because Mitnick is a well-known hacker whose website is often attacked, his accounts are far too difficult to defend against the onslaught of attacks.
He has since moved his website over to Plano, Texas-based FireHost (www.firehost.com).
Mitnick’s cellphone carrier AT&T also dropped him as a customer this week after he hired a lawyer to complain that attackers had been posting his private account information in hacking forums.
Despite frequent countermeasures he has implemented to thwart any attacks, Mitnick says that over the years his account has repeatedly been hacked into with his information posted online.
He says that all he wants is for AT&T to secure his account so that no one can access his phone records.”
Mitnick’s site has been breached twice in the last three months, with one of the attacks causing the web host to experience an outage.
According to HostedHere IT director David Wykofka, Mitnick is consistently one of the first targets whenever vulnerabilities seem to arise in third-party vendor software.
And although web hosting providers are at liberty to select who can and cannot be a customer, the very idea that HostedHere has asked Mitnick to leave reveals that the company lacks the ability to secure the accounts of any high-profile users.
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