According to a post on Musiccity.com, the recent "bug" which was allegedly found in Music City's Morpheus media file sharing application is a hoax. (thanks Blasphemous Girl for the heads up)
The file sharing giant which currently clocks up over 10 million downloads a month and has successfully succeeded napster as the webs favourite P2P application issued a statement in which it claims that the security hole was manufactured by a lone security consultant.
Key points of the statement include:
- The report was allegedly made by an "anonymous" security consultant. Neither this consultant nor any others have contacted StreamCast directly to report a breach in security.
- Several false postings have been made on behalf of StreamCast and Morpheus. One was reported by a source named Paul Sarsfield, who claimed to be a "Morpheus" employee. StreamCast does not employ any person by that name, nor have any StreamCast employees or company representatives posted any responses to this matter.
- There has never been a security breech in Morpheus since its introduction in April 2001.
The company emphatically denies any possiblity that malicious users could access the contents of a users PC by sharing a specific directory on their hard drive and says the claims are totally unfounded.
News source: Full Morpheus reply to Security Hole Claims.
