Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6

Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6
Ted Bridis, The Associated Press 2003-07-02

The government and private technology experts warned Wednesday that hackers plan to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday in a loosely coordinated "contest" that could disrupt Internet traffic.

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
bl0rf (3 replies)

Scary stuff. What can companies do and

why didn't anybody tell me?? :-)

I guess if I was put on the spot like the

webmasters are, I guess I would have my

staff on alert.

Most importantly, I would have had one or

more backup webservers with a mirror of

the material on them. They would have...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
Anonymous

Use 'defense in depth':

- Patch your OS and apps.

- Check firewall rulesets.

- Harden the OS on your servers.

- Implement intrusion detection systems.

- Review your data architecture, and look for vulnerable information (credit card numbers, customer information, etc.)

- Conduct vulner...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
Hal Logan <loganh (at) mccfl (dot) edu [email concealed]>

IMO, a network's security stance should be no different when compromise attempts are expected.

With the possible exception of making sure that the appropriate staff members are on call, July 6th should be just another day for your network....

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-03
Anonymous

Excuse me but doesn't strike anyone here as colossally stupid that it takes a threat like this to get people to change PW's, update and patch, etc. etc. These are the sort of things which any half wit is scheduling on a constant basis.I also submit the following exerpted from another publication.

I...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
Anonymous (2 replies)

What government technology expert is the source for this report?...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
Anonymous

apparently these guys...

www.iss.net

Cheers......

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Here's the contest site 2003-07-02
Anonymous (1 replies)

Here's the link:

http://www.defacers-challenge.com

Not much of a reward IMHO, other than public notority and probably a job offer from whomever is doing the challenge.

More details: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/02/HNhackattack_1.html

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Here's the contest site 2003-07-04
Anonymous

Ha ha. I get "Forbidden" error. Has this site been hacked? Serves them right!...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
Anonymous

LMAO!

How many of these have come out and passed without a sound?

Guv workers justifying their jobs, too bad accuracy never counts....

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-02
Anonymous (2 replies)

what about hacking defacers-challenge.com in the same day? good idea.

security is nowhere....

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-03
WoLvERiNe

2 bad there IS no defacers-challenge.com LEFT 4 u 2 deface :P...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-04
Anonymous

As of Jul. 3, 2003, defacers-challenge.com has been shut down.

http://www.counterpane.com/alert-t20030702-001.html...

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Too bad 2003-07-03
pl0it

This is going to interesting. I dont think this is going to be nearly as fun as it sounds.

I would like to participate in the challenge. Wish they didn't shutdown the website and I heard about this earlier :)...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-03
jsvlrt (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]

this just in:

millions of computer-wise people across the globe have joined together as one massive team, known as 'hackers', these computer experts gone bad have threatened to take down the net, and are hitting web hosts around the world millions of times a day

People want to hack websites; i...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-03
Freddie (1 replies)

Quote:

"We emphasize that all Web site administrators should ensure that their sites are not vulnerable,"

That was the one of the most stupid things I've read.

Do they also want people around the world to make sure that they are not involved in any accident?

I know that he means but it was...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-04
Anonymous

that doesnt mean people shouldnt be patching and locking down their servers. i agree with a person at the top of this thread that it shouldnt take a publicized contest to get people to lockdown their boxes....

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website down: here's a copy 2003-07-04
jsvlrt (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]

taken from google's cache, which will no doubt get recrawled and removed soon:

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Welcome to the site - Defacers Challenge!

Its notorius to see every day websites and websites being disfigured some for hacktivism acts others only for fun others without apparent reason.

But t...

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Government, industry warn of mass hacker attacks on July 6 2003-07-04
Anonymous

Just have a nice weekend and see if anything happened on Monday....

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