Astalavista.com — The Scene the Way We Know it — My Experience in Running the Portal
It’s been approximately 12 years since I’ve last touched based with Team Astalavista which basically represents Astalavista.com — The Underground or the World’s Most Popular Information Security Portal which I used to run for the position of Managing Director throughout 2003–2006 and managed to produce a high-volume high-quality Security Newsletter featuring exclusive interviews with people from the Scene including practical guides and articles on Information Security and various daily updated Security Tools and Security Document reviews and since I’ve recently touched based with the Team in a possible portal acquisition attempt I’ve decided to share some of my experience in managing and running the portal throughout 2003–2006 acting as Managing Director of hxxp://astalavista.com
In this post I’ll describe The Scene the way we know it through the prism of my involvement as a hacker enthusiast throughout the 90’s and my primary position as Technical Collector of trojan horses for a variety of leading anti-trojans vendors including my participation in a variety of Scene-themed and oriented hacker groups at the time including the Netherlands-based Security Vendor - Frame4 Security Systems, TechGenix's WindowSecurity.com and ITSecurity.com where I was busy responding to general questions related to…
