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July 6th - Website Defacement Day?

Posted by simoniker on from the season-of-mass-stupidity dept.

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!"

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  1. WashingtonPost version by $exyNerdie · · Score: 3, Informative


    Government Warns of Mass Hacker Attacks

  2. Re:Our tax dollars at work... by EdMack · · Score: 5, Informative

    Em, if you RTFA, you would see

    "Frankly, hacker challenges occur frequently, and we don't think they all rise to the level of a warning," Homeland Security spokesman David Wray said.

    Yes this is /. but only flame the gov when you must.

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  3. WHOIS defacers-challenge.com ? by RobertTaylor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Registrant:
    of, Day (TPEEWXQFBD)
    11 Albert Rd
    AMITYVILLE, NY 11701
    US

    Does that place exist? If so *deface that* ;)

    I doubt it will be a real address though, however the idiocy of some people does often suprise me!

    1. Re:WHOIS defacers-challenge.com ? by PingXao · · Score: 4, Informative

      I'm very close to that location. I don't know who lives there, but it's a house on a canal that's probably worth between $300,000 and $450,000 with annual property taxes in the area of $8,000. It's in a very dsireable location. I seriously doubt anyone with this type of asset would put it at risk by engaging in stupidly illegal behavior.

  4. Re:This can't possibly be legal? by NewWaveNet · · Score: 2, Informative
    Of course they are. But it`s not like they posted this home address and cell phone number for lawyers to reach him. It`s hosted at HostWay, some lil 5$/yr shit hosting company, and the domain obviously has fake reg info:

    Administrative Contact:
    of, Day (35473296P) sotaa@wongfaye.com
    11 Albert Rd
    AMITYVILLE, NY 11701
    US
    (631) 842-5471

    Writing viruses is also illegal...the key is not getting caught.
  5. Re:frosty piss by squiggleslash · · Score: 2, Informative
    Personally, as someone who maintains a fairly substantial web project for his employer and whose system administrators are abnormally overworked at the moment, I'd like to know something like this is about to happen so I can keep an eye out that day just in case there's something we've missed.

    If there's a large amount of cr/hacking going on, I'd like to know ahead of time so I can make preparations.

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  6. Re:frosty piss by Traa · · Score: 2, Informative

    heh, and here I thought that posting a link to a 'news' article about 'stuff' that 'nerds' do was rather exactly what slashdot was all about.

    Slashdot doesn't set a moral standard. The posters/moderators/community does.

    Slashdot provides room for debates about these sort of articles. Feel free to debate the moral soundness of the topic of the article if you feel that inclination. Hint's like 'defacing websites is illegal' are probably a good thing for those readers that hadn't picked up on that fact yet though.

  7. Screw over? This could actually help. by IncohereD · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is this a call to deface Web sites, or generally screw over sysadmins who oftentimes are paid beans to being with? Shameful.

    Maybe if hundreds of corporate websites get defaced so easily, they'll actually wake up and START hiring more qualifed sys admins for a decent salary, and STOP over working those they have now.

    Sometimes what a problem needs is a good exposing in order for someone to start fixing it. If everythings going along AOK where's the incentive for a business to change the status quo?

  8. Re:Poetic justice... by TCM · · Score: 2, Informative

    The domain was registered on June, 21st. As of now, the official DNS servers don't know that domain and I think they never have in the past one and a half weeks. Maybe it's about to come up (a bit close then). It's certainly not /.ed, slashdotting doesn't remove domains from name servers (yet :)).

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  9. Yes, here is a mirror by fv · · Score: 4, Informative
    > www.defacers-challenge.com doesn't resolve for me. Does someone have a mirror or the IP?

    They were shut down by their ISP (Affinity), but I still have the English version in my cache from an earlier viewing:

    http://www.insecure.org/tmp/defacers-challenge/

    Note that Insecure.Org DOES NOT in any way condone or promote this so-called challenge. I'm just providing the link so people can see what the fuss was about. I'm planning to add a note to that effect to the top of the page in a few minutes. What I found most humorous is that they ask people to register in advance by sending in their contact info. That is a really great idea :).

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