July 6th - Website Defacement Day?

pabl0 writes "According to an article from SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle), a challenge has been posted, inviting web-site defacers to alter the content of as many web sites as possible on July 6th, with an apparent limit of 6,000 websites per contestant. Looks like this would be a good time to make sure all those web-server security patches are applied!"

I notice...

[dex22]

I notice the 6th is a Sunday. It would have to be, so all the children can do it without missing school.

In other news

[ramzak2k]

July 7th was announced as national handcluffing day when hordes of hackers would be paraded around the streets in major cities.

Wrecklessness

[LordoftheFrings]

This is just really awful. A huge call out for Script Kiddies of the world to unite. Terrible.

*shakes head*

*looks around*

*starts researching latest exploits*

*runs*

A Haiku

[blackmonday]

Page deface!
Challenge - July 6
Please stay away

whu?

[deadsaijinx*]

The purported "prize" for participating hackers was 500-megabytes of online storage space

WOOHOO! After all that hacking into thousands of web-sites with who knows how many terabytes of storage, I can now get almost a FULL CD of free web-storage!!!! WOOHOO!!!

Wait, can I still use that in prison?

Well

[Anonymous Coward]

At least I'll know when we'll be restoring from a back-up. I really hate being caught off guard...

It's not defacement...

[myov]

It's just a massive slashdotting!

(someone had to say it)

Score -1: Troll

[mortonda]

Once again the desire to moderate a story flares up.

Please don't feed the trolls.

Re:What sort of prize is 500mb??

[Andorion]

Uh... prize? In an ILLEGAL hacking event?

"To collect your prize, please call 1-800-FBI-NARC... a representative will be sent to your home shortly."

~Berj

Apply your patches!

[donutz]

New York officials urged companies to change default computer passwords, begin monitoring Web site activities more aggressively, remove unnecessary functions from server computers and apply the latest software repairs from vendors such as Microsoft Corp.

Well it took some doing, but I managed to get that latest Microsoft service pack installed on my web server. It said that it fixed a lot of issues, so I felt it was worth it, even though I run a Slackware 9.0 Linux server. Here's to hoping it reboots alright!

another =)

[Andorion]

Website defacement -
Illegal and damaging.
Still beats going to church.

~Berj

Re:A Haiku

[Tackhead]

> Page deface!
> Challenge - July 6
> Please stay away

Traditionally, the Haiku form must not only follows the 5-7-5 syllable progression, but it must also evoke a pastoral, reflective feeling in the reader upon contemplating the seas[|~||{{[{
WE 0WN ALL J00R B4S3
TEH INTERWEB IS ALL MINE
FUCK J00 1TS SUMMER!

Re:What sort of prize is 500mb??

[HungWeiLo]

Well, it's kinda hard to access your CD-Rs and 120GB hard drive archives in prison.

Hence the online storage as a prize.

Re:In other news

[neurostar]

July 7th was announced as national handcluffing day when hordes of hackers would be paraded around the streets in major cities.

A correction has been issued from John Ashcroft: " July 7th was announced as national handcluffing day when hordes of terrorists would be paraded around the streets in major cities.

Re:what are you talking about?

[nomadic]

I didn't say they were. Just mentioning what it reminded me of. "That cloud reminds me of a horsie" doesn't mean I expect the cloud to actually eat hay...

handCLUFF?

[RobertTaylor]

right both of you have said it, please, what the hell is a handcluff?!

/. gas on the Fire

[KFury]

Gee, I'd never have known about this small-time hacker stunt if /. hadn't brought it to the attention of millions. Talk about using your powers for mayhem, /. ...

Mischief Night

[Lodragandraoidh]

Regarding 'Mischief Night' -

In America, we call that 'Weekends' and 'Holidays'... :-}>

Bah...hackers schmackers!

[madmarcel]

Hmmm...july 3rd...counting down...

But...let's look on the positive side:
Let's say thousands of websites DO get de-faced (w00t - how very unlikely ;)

A) Thousands of extra hours of work created to clean up the mess. (or not - y'all make backups right ;) Those are surely bill-able hours right?
And it's on the weekend, wahey! Double rates!

B) All the administrators of web-servers that WERE defaced will HAVE to examine the security of their web-servers. Improvements will HAVE to be made. If 'thousands' of web-servers are forced to improve their security...is that a bad thing?

C) Perhaps a lot of administrators (and PHB's) will notice that the most commonly defaced web-servers were (or are likely to be) those that run M$ software of some sort. Would that make them more likely to switch to OTHER software?

D) Hundreds of lamo script-kiddies prosecuted, jailed and/or permanently disallowed from using the internet. Excellent. Perhaps /.'s troll ratio will drop, and IRC will become a pleasant experience....NOT! :^D

Re:Not Necessarily

[Anonymous Coward]

Or, you could just use NetBSD :)

Wait, I thought OpenBSD was the secure one? Or was it the portable one? Maybe it was the efficient one. No, that's FreeBSD. Aw, hell, I guess I'll just have to go back to using Linux, which is all three :P

Slashdot's new title

[crux6rind]

SLASHDOT News for scriptkiddies. Stuff that 1337

Re:handCLUFF?

[Anonymous Coward]

If they told you, they'd have to cub you to death.

Re:A Haiku

[Tackhead]

> And actually, the 5-7-5 pattern is not strict, and neither is having exactly three lines. H Haiku should always mention - implicitly - a season, and should have a change of perspective or other "turn", perhaps to the point of awaking surprise.

0WN1N8D!
Buffer 'sploit known since last spring.
(I fixed it for you.)

Re:If /.'ed

[SuperDuG]

From the article ...

"The FBI is taking this very seriously," FBI spokesman Bill Murray said. "Hacking is a crime and those who participate in this activity will be investigated and brought to justice."

Hell yeah!! Remember how vindictive he was trying to get that damned gopher in Caddy Shack?

Re:If /.'ed

[willis]

Probably because it seems unlikely that the sf chronicle (a major newsource) is going to be slashdotted. It's like saying the NY Times is going to be. I'd guess that some mod took this as playing for Karma.

Re:Apply your patches!

[Catskul]

MS-SP: Non-ntfs partition detected.
resistance is futile.
partition will be assimilated.

Converting EXT3 filesystem to NTFS5.....
.
.
.
.
Kernel Panic: Root File system has been murdered !

That's my birthday too!

[Soporific]

Coincidence? I think not!

~S

Re:Let them start with the **AA sites

[MrLint]

Hehe I smell a poll question brewing in this post!

Who's website would you go to see if you knew it was defaced?
* RIAA/MPAA
* SCO
* AOL
* EMarketersAmerica.org
* That other jackass spammer with the sports car in michigan?
* Microsoft
* the cowboy neal foot fetish extravangaza

Re:Our tax dollars at work...

[Malfourmed]

wonder how many millions Homeland Security is going to spend "preparing" America for this one.

Patch and cover! Patch and cover!!

Re:Now I understand ...

[freeweed]

on Wednesday July 02, @05:52PM, chloroquine said:

Our IT department just sent out a notice to the institute about security over the holiday weekend. I'd love to see our website hacked. It is one of those no useful content sites with lots of tasteful colours and pictures.

But don't quote me on that.

Aw, fuck...

+5 Pathetic

[flowerp]

1) Register domain with a discount webhoster

2) Upload a stupid hacking-contest website written in bad english

3) Make frontpage news, trigger homeland security defense program

4) ...

5) Profit?!?!

Re:I notice...

[Alsee]

Next theory, please.

Ok. Ahhh, how about it's a satanic plot? Yeah, that's it. A satanic plot!

It's the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of the sixth... ummmm... the sixth... ahhh.... Well there's a SIX thousand websitE limit! Yeah! That's it!

666! 5A7AN R00LZ!!1!

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Re:If /.'ed

[yourmom16]

I never understood the slashdot effect. How can a bunchh of slashdotters bring a system to its knees when they dont even RTFA?

Re:If /.'ed

[Alsee]

Bill Murray
Remember how vindictive he was trying to get that damned gopher in Caddy Shack?

OMG! That pesky gopher defaced the FBI website! [hampsterdance.com]

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Preparations

[yintercept]

Slashdot may have informed a bunch of hackers about Defacement day, they are also informing a large number sysadmins who will check their weekend back ups and prepare for a Sunday in the office.

Of course, the smart thing to do is to deface your own web site, then you can take the weekend off 'cause the hackers will think you've already been tagged.

Re:Preparations

[sketerpot]

Clever. :-) Making backups would also be a good idea. If your web site has CSS files for the overall styling, you could make a modified version that puts "Hacked by Peter" in the background several times. You would just use fixed positioning, z-index, and some fonts.

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Okay, fess up

[Anonymous Coward]

Who dun gone and defaced /. already?

Oh, it's like this all the time?

Nevermind . . .

Re:Income Opportunity

[yintercept]

Well, I also thought Defacement Day could be a good income opportunity. Web Admins could charge something like a hundred bucks then put whatever marks a hacker wants on the site. It would be a good way for cashed strapped sites to make a few bucks. The hacker could brag. If you play the game right, the might get some free publicity.

The only real problem I see is that I don't know if I would trust that the hacker I am dealing with gave me a legit credit card (it is really easy to steal credit card numbers at the local restaurant). Oh well, too many good ideas fall apart when you get down the the actual exchange of cash.

RTFA?

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