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WARNING: Hacking contest about to begin..., Likely to target web hosting firms.

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fishsponge

Posted: Jul 3 2003, 04:03 PM

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http://www.theregister.com/content/55/31552.html

QUOTE ("The Register")

Defacement contest likely to target Web hosting firms
By John Leyden
Posted: 03/07/2003 at 11:53 GMT

A defacement challenge scheduled for Sunday is likely to target Web hosting companies rather than individual Web sites.

Defacement archive site Zone-H reasons that crackers will target Web sites they have already rooted because of the limited time set aside for the challenge.

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watch out of you run a web server!!! especially a Micro$not It-Isn't-Secure server!!

NTLDR	Posted: Jul 6 2003, 08:46 PM
User Level: 5 Group: Members Posts: 105 Member No.: 2 Joined: 14-February 03	Apparently it was a bit of a "no-show".

fishsponge	Posted: Jul 7 2003, 08:15 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	yeah, i know... lol, nothing seemed to change! it was big news though... The Register mentioned it, news.com mentioned it, and here at work we were coming up with escalation processes incase one of ours got hacked (severely unlikely)! :D

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Posted: Jul 8 2003, 09:22 AM

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ah... i thought the register would pick up on it :D

http://www.theregister.com/content/55/31591.html

QUOTE ("The Register")

Net survives mass-defacement contest
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 07/07/2003 at 11:12 GMT

The Internet is still up and running thanks to the diligence of government agencies like FedCIRC and commercial fearmongers like mi2g (which will let you read the free FedCIRC advisory on their Web site for a mere £29.38), who warned us about a massive defacement contest scheduled for this weekend past.

Or thanks to the fact that the defacement hackathon was a hoax from the beginning, which it almost certainly was. But the interesting question is, whose hoax was it?

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