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)

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

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 would really be interested to know how the Office of Homeland Security is able to determine these specific "surveillance probes" as different from the millions of other probes initiated everyday. I see over two hundred probes a day on my home network, I won't even get into the amount luanched against my enterprise.

"An early-warning network for the technology industry, operating with Homeland

Security, notified companies that it received "credible information" about the

planned attacks and already has detected surveillance probes by hackers looking

for weaknesses in corporate and government networks."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/07/02/financial1239EDT0109.DTL&type=tech

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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