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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.

5 of 660 comments (clear)

  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: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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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?