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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.

    --
    puts ("Python r0cks\n");
  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. 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 :).

    -Fyodor
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