Bromide
in the late evening on Wednesday, the 2nd of July 2003 by Chad
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the holiday weekend.
The contest awards points to vandal groups for defacing Web sites, with higher points awarded for sites that are run on less common servers. The winner of the contest will be the group that defaces 6,000 servers in the shortest amount of time.
This is from CNet.
I’m sorry, I used to hack around a bit, but this is getting annoying.
I already had to spend my dinner sitting on a conference call during a CERT alert due to suspicious activity. Please, let us all have a fun weekend, damnit. Its one thing to pull of something great, like defacing SCO and posting UNIX source on the site for all to see. But just going in and doing this:
“To deface in a short time, defacers are using special mass-defacement tools that can deface in three minutes a Web-hosting server that contains several thousand Web sites,”
Sheesh.. So its nothing but lamerz script kiddies doing this. Where’s my spanking stick?
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July 2nd, 2003 at 11:09 pm
I must agree, this is lame and ridiculously motivated. If the motivating party actually has some semblence of a life, I’d be impressed.
In my opinion, there is no real point to defacing websites frivolously. If you have a personal vendetta against said company/corporation/dotcom, then by all means do what you feel you must do, at your own risk. But to attempt to motivate the rest of the bored hacker community to effectively trash the web for a day… c’mon…
I can’t resist saying it… “Can’t we all just get along?”
Note - now, *I* would like to see, for example… a “Hack Microsoft Day”… hack as many individual microsoft machines in 24 hours. Find a way for a hacker to provide unique information for each machine hacked, post to a simple stats site that will determine how many unique machines an entity was able to gain access to. No malicious activity, no defacement, no real big hub-bub other than showcasing MS security holes…
July 2nd, 2003 at 11:10 pm
Even better, would be to utilize it as a comparison tool… how many MS PC’s an entity was able to access, versus the number of PC’s they attempted but failed on, thus generating a somewhat realistic idea of how many MS pc users have properly secured their machines…
July 2nd, 2003 at 11:27 pm
I guess the problem is that most of the people who will get hacked are the personal sites, the small business, etc. Those who can least afford to try to figure out why their website is down…
July 4th, 2003 at 1:18 am
If anything, it may prove useful to administrators for mass-hosting websites to take a harder look at how they administer the hosting machines. Much like the spam wars, as the anti-spam mechanisms get smarter, so thus the spammers… constantly forcing evolution…