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Web Site Hacks Rise as War Rages in Iraq

Posted by CmdrTaco on

An anonymous reader noted a Reuters news story talking about Website Defacement during the war. Apparently protesters and hackers are defacing hundreds of US and UK sites, both corporate and government.

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  1. Re:news sites are all safe by cmallinson · · Score: 4, Informative
    The less fluff, the better. We just want the friggin news.

    here you go

  2. Re:All False by AssFace · · Score: 3, Informative

    /. was hacked into at least once that I can recall.

    IIRC it was something like:

    When Slash (the code) is distributed, there are default passwords in place (so they say, I've never looked at the code b/c I don't particularly care - I don't run it anywhere).
    Someone ran a check to see all of the hosts at slashdot that could be seen from the outside world.
    From there, then they looked to see which of those servers was running Slash.
    They found one which wasn't a production one, and they got in via the default password still being in place.
    From there they made changes... and that is where I'm less clear - how the changes were propigated up to the main site(s).

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  3. Re:news sites are all safe by AssFace · · Score: 3, Informative

    technically, unless the Flash contains bitmaps or audio, it isn't all that large. If you stick to actual vector graphics, the entire compiled package remains quite small since it is rendering it all at run time.

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  4. Re:news sites are all safe by n3k5 · · Score: 5, Informative
    how many of these hack attacks are exploiting known issues?
    Pretty much all of them. The current political situation doesn't cause hordes of über-crackers to spring up, it's mostly protesters, nationalists and script kiddies fooling around with known exploits. The article doesn't mention a single big, well-known web site -- which tend to have better security -- as a target, most of the attacked sites are simply small fragbait.
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  5. Re:All False by LokiSteve · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup.. /. has been hacked
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    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=9 8/09/14/1949212&mode=thread

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  6. Re:Heroes by ocelotbob · · Score: 3, Informative
    I've got serious reservations, but you can't be intellctually honest unless you consider the extensive contracts that corporations such as the French-based corporation Fina and the like have with the Iraqi government, contracts that will be null and void if there is military action. Contracts that definitely influence their own governments actions.

    Or is it somehow "unfair" to talk about the left's economic involvement in the middle east?

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  7. Global internet traffic actually down recent days by isn't+my+name · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to Internet Traffice Report, overall global traffic is down the last three days. Not that it shows the whole picture. I'm sure that the shape of that traffic in the last few days has changed dramatically.

  8. Re:Heroes by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Informative
    Point of information: Chirac is a hardline right-winger in charge of a conservative government. There's nothing "left wing" about him or it, and there's nothing left wing about businesses climbing over themselves to wallow in profits dealing first-come first-served either.

    Anti-war does not mean left-wing, as those fine fellows at the Cato Institute will point out.

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  9. Re:Webcams in iraq? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even if they had one, the 2 main iraqi sites are of the net, the nameserver of www.uruklink.net, NIC1.BAGHDADLINK.net is returning a different bogus IP every 32 seconds. The original IP, 62.145.94.237 behind satelite, is not returning packets. Also www.iraqi-mission.org is no longer available.

    Is this the US goverment hacking these servers, or is it script kiddies having a field day?