Web Site Attacks Are On The Rise

Nicholas Roussos writes "According to recent numbers from 2004, website attacks are on the rise, and many of them are being performed by mischevious school kids. Some of their favorite targets include U.S. government and military websites."

Comments

Re:FRIST POST!!!

[tomhudson]

... and their names are Mustafa, Ali, and Samir, (or whoever we want to be the next "terror threat").

Or is it the Russians getting a bit uppity, in which case its Vladimir, Gregovitch, and Tereschova

Next week it'll be those damn Canucks sitting on all that oil next door - look out Pierre and Jacques - we're coming after you! We know you're related to Mafia Boy - you went to school in the same province - there's our proof!

Build a better operating system.

[zymano]

Quit using the C language to write operating systems.

No, not kidding. It's too easy to hang yourself with that language. Add to that the size of todays kernels with millions of lines of code and you will have problems.

Small kernel OS like Openvms or one constructed with a language with bounds checking and garbage collection would be way more secure. There is an oberon operating system called blue bottle .

http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/index.html

One more point. Try and find a way to stop scanning and report those that do to some central internet authority. Oh , forgot........Don't have one.

Re:Careful!

[John Seminal]

Back in 1982 (we were 12), all that happened to us after hacking into government computers was my friend Lance getting his Apple ][+ confiscated followed by a job offer 9 years later from the same folks who confiscated his computer back in 1982

This is the problem. We must not ever let these people work around computers again. Talent does not matter, ethics does.

Think about it. Say there is a guy in college who is brilliant with law, but decides he wants to work with the mafia, to use the law to help them. No law school will admit this SOB. No state will allow him to sit for the bar exams.

Maybe this is too tough a policy, but I am all for the Bush whitehouse going after the new terrorists, kids with computers.

Re:Government "control"?

[John Seminal]

What I find interesting is that the U.S. Government is constantly at battle with hordes of "mischievious school kids," and actually has a big PROBLEM with it.

Explain to me, again, how school children can pose a serious threat to the United States government, and we still have the balls to declare war on a country in the middle east?

Because in the rest of the world, we can kill our enemies. In the USA, we have to give them a court. And most courts won't give stiff penalties to kids.

The other problem is with american values. Kids have no values anymore. They are being bombarded with sex on tv, everything that was wrong is now right, "don't have sex, don't lose your virginity, give blow jobs instead". Clinton: "It all depends on what your definition of the word is is". That is what they get. Add on to that all the faggots asking for civil right as if they were black people fighting for the right to vote. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Re:Careful!

[maxpublic]

Why put the burden on ISPs? If Windows ships with the services shut down and without the capability of remotely activating them then the problem is solved.

Max

Re:No surprises there, then

[maxpublic]

This is a major problem.

This is *your* major problem and it's up to you to solve it. For example, by securing your servers and ip-banning the folks making the malicious attacks. Why are you insisting that others do your work for you?

Max