In an unfortunate turn of events a great security resource is hanging up its gloves. milw0rm.com will be shutting down. The site maintainer, str0ke, posted a message on the site today explaining why.
From milw0rm:
Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don’t :(. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours (taking off weekends) isn’t fair to the authors on this site. I appreciate and thank everyone for their support in the past.
Be safe, /str0ke
A sad moment but, and an all too common lament among folks who run security websites. It’s a labour of love but, at some point it can become overwhelming. I wonder who will fill the gap.
Thanks str0ke. Best of luck in your future endeavours.
Update: I saw some amusing comments on Twitter that script kiddies everywhere will be crying out in anguish. 🙂
UPDATE: (July 13th, 2009) …and they’re back! From Heise:
The milw0rm exploit portal has resumed normal service and is back online. Following the announcement, last week, by the site’s operator – str0ke, that time constraints meant he planned to stop publishing exploits, the portal is reported to have been swamped with enquiries. According to str0ke the server was overloaded and had to be replaced with a more powerful machine. The flood of visits may have been caused by users trying to download as many exploits as possible before the database went off line.