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July 6th - Website Defacement Day?
pabl0 writes "According to an article from SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle), a challenge has been posted, inviting web-site defacers to alter the content of as many web sites as possible on July 6th, with an apparent limit of 6,000 websites per contestant. Looks like this would be a good time to make sure all those web-server security patches are applied!"
July 7th was announced as national handcluffing day when hordes of hackers would be paraded around the streets in major cities.
Siggy Say, Siggy Do
This is just really awful. A huge call out for Script Kiddies of the world to unite. Terrible.
*shakes head*
*looks around*
*starts researching latest exploits*
*runs*
Canadian Cynic, canadian politics is less boring than you
The purported "prize" for participating hackers was 500-megabytes of online storage space
WOOHOO! After all that hacking into thousands of web-sites with who knows how many terabytes of storage, I can now get almost a FULL CD of free web-storage!!!! WOOHOO!!!
Wait, can I still use that in prison?
YOU SUCK BALLS!
Please don't feed the trolls.
Uh... prize? In an ILLEGAL hacking event?
"To collect your prize, please call 1-800-FBI-NARC... a representative will be sent to your home shortly."
~Berj
New York officials urged companies to change default computer passwords, begin monitoring Web site activities more aggressively, remove unnecessary functions from server computers and apply the latest software repairs from vendors such as Microsoft Corp.
Well it took some doing, but I managed to get that latest Microsoft service pack installed on my web server. It said that it fixed a lot of issues, so I felt it was worth it, even though I run a Slackware 9.0 Linux server. Here's to hoping it reboots alright!
Hmmm...july 3rd...counting down...
;)
;) Those are surely bill-able hours right?
/.'s troll ratio will drop, and IRC will become a pleasant experience....NOT! :^D
But...let's look on the positive side:
Let's say thousands of websites DO get de-faced (w00t - how very unlikely
A) Thousands of extra hours of work created to clean up the mess. (or not - y'all make backups right
And it's on the weekend, wahey! Double rates!
B) All the administrators of web-servers that WERE defaced will HAVE to examine the security of their web-servers. Improvements will HAVE to be made. If 'thousands' of web-servers are forced to improve their security...is that a bad thing?
C) Perhaps a lot of administrators (and PHB's) will notice that the most commonly defaced web-servers were (or are likely to be) those that run M$ software of some sort. Would that make them more likely to switch to OTHER software?
D) Hundreds of lamo script-kiddies prosecuted, jailed and/or permanently disallowed from using the internet. Excellent. Perhaps
If they told you, they'd have to cub you to death.
0WN1N8D!
Buffer 'sploit known since last spring.
(I fixed it for you.)
Hehe I smell a poll question brewing in this post!
Who's website would you go to see if you knew it was defaced?
* RIAA/MPAA
* SCO
* AOL
* EMarketersAmerica.org
* That other jackass spammer with the sports car in michigan?
* Microsoft
* the cowboy neal foot fetish extravangaza
Patch and cover! Patch and cover!!
a world in progress...
I never understood the slashdot effect. How can a bunchh of slashdotters bring a system to its knees when they dont even RTFA?
"We have got to make Stan understand the importance of voting, because he'll definitely vote for our guy." - South Park
Slashdot may have informed a bunch of hackers about Defacement day, they are also informing a large number sysadmins who will check their weekend back ups and prepare for a Sunday in the office.
Of course, the smart thing to do is to deface your own web site, then you can take the weekend off 'cause the hackers will think you've already been tagged.