The story goes like this. Media Defender, the company that is regularly hired by RIAA, MIAA and other entertainment companies was using a backdoor in the Revision3 torrent tracker for their own purposes. One has to understand that the torrent tracker is being used to spread the legit releases of the company to the public. Well the service was exploited and Jim unfortunately fails to mention what Media Defender has used the service for.

The problems began when Revision3 discovered the activity eventually and put a stop to its use. The Media Defender server however responded in a rather irregular fashion flooding the Revision3 servers with 8000 Syn requests per second which eventually brought the server and the rest of the infrastructure down for the weekend.

It’s hard to say if the Denial of Service attack on the server was an automatic reaction of the Media Defender servers and Jim Louderback chooses his words carefully. The FBI is investigating the incident, no word yet if Revision3 will sue Media Defender as well.

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Two days later a recorded phone conversation between a New-York attorney and Media Defender discussing the security of the Media Defender email server. The question that should have been asked at this point was why they were not able to fix the leak that they thought was only affecting the email server.

There are no details on how the conversation was recorded but apparently one of the parties used VOIP. Today, four days later, the source code of software that was used to trap and decoy users was released on the Internet. This software was said to be used to spread those fake files on the p2p networks.

Media Defender Defenders, that is the name of the group making all those releases, promised to release more information in the coming days. I think we are in for some interesting days to come.

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Several bittorrent sites have already removed all fake releases that have been spread by Media Defender and are currently banning fake trackers and all other traces of Media Defender influence which is huge if you allow me this opinion. More than 5000 fake torrents have been removed from sites such as Mininova by now.

It is really interesting to see how the Music and Movie Industry are spreading fake releases and undermine servers with the help of Mediadefender. It should take some time until they are able to recover from this serious blow. They will of course get new IPs, new servers and begin their foul play anew.

If you are interested in the emails files you can take a look at any of the big torrent sites such as the pirate bay to download it. It has a size of around 120 Megabytes and can be imported into any email client. Just move the file into your profile Mail \ Local Folders if you use Thunderbird for instance.

There are many information and it surely takes some time until all has been analyzed, there is probably more that will be discovered.

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