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 been

all different OS's so that compromising a

new server would take a long time.

I would have held on to credit card

numbers for dear life.

What would you have done?

Do share.

-bl0rf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Too bad 2003-07-03
pl0it

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

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

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

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

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