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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. Re:what are you talking about? by donutz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slashdot has little to do with the defacement. Slashdot is simply reporting this.

    Nah, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting it.

    Slashdot is just giving a bunch of tech-minded people a forum in which to talk about it.

  2. Re:what are you talking about? by meme_police · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Precisely. Do all you dotters think that the Slashdot effect is bigger than all the major new organizations put together? Slashdot isn't the only site reporting this.

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    The meme police, They live inside of my head

  3. Re:what are you talking about? by meme_police · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is Slashdot telling us how to exploit IIS or Apache? No.

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    The meme police, They live inside of my head

  4. Re:frosty piss by Proudrooster · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This is the exact correct place to put it. Thousands of SysAdmins read Slashdot and now know that they had double check their security or risk embarassment on July 6th.

    Also, I have heard rumblings of yet another MS worm run scheduled to run rampant over the 4th of July holiday weekend. (Prepare for pager meltdown MS and network admins.)

    I totally appreciate the heads up. In fact I did an external port scan of my Class B today and found out that the firewall monkeys had opened incoming ftp from anywhere to key servers. If it wasn't for this new threat I probably wouldn't have bothered to rattle the door knobs before the holiday.

    I'd say that everyone has fair warning. Make sure your backups are up to date and that you don't have any easily hackable services exposed. Now the only question is, "Who will be embarrassed?"

    Remember folks, it's not just about defacing, it's about defacing creatively.
    ~ Ha]<0R D00D
  5. Re:frosty piss by jafiwam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah?

    Well guess what. They put the thing out there before I was hired and put a bunch of twitchy-clueless web hosting customers on it.

    I got a new set of servers, got to design how it all works, all patched and good and ready to go. Know what I am waiting for? Server brackets. The boss's dad is makin em in his garage. Until then, I can't put the new ones up in the rack.

    Then I get to migrate all of them-there sites to the shiney new servers and answer stupid phone calls to explain how DNS works, and explain how their ISP proxy server is fucking broken.

    You think any of this is my choice? (Aside from the shiney new stuff.) Think anybody is going to stop and think "Gee, this might be patched tomorrow and it won't be a threat to anybody as a zombie then!" Nope. They won't think at all.

    Your justification for web site defacement sucks. You might as well ass-rape your sister cuz she's not wearing a chastity belt. If I run across your mom, you'd better hope I don't use the same logic you do.

    It's not Darwinism, it's vandalism.

    I agree that there are a lot of lousy sysadmins out there, causing lots of problems by letting their machines get hacked. But you should think about how you think things should go a little bit. Maybe it would be better if you concentrated on educating those around you how to set up a web site properly, hmm?

    (As for me, I hope the Spanish-speaking nitwits organizing this end up in Colombian-Federal-pound-you-in-the-ass Prison. They deserve it.)