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Solis Moderator
Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 530 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:12 pm Post subject: Well... more of a warning |
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There's supposed to be a mass hacker contest starting at 6:00 Sunday to see who can deface the most websites.
I'd recommend you batten down the hatches, Whip... _________________ Planetfurry moderator
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Drauger Guest
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a rather pointless,mean, and stupid contest. If anything happens that I can help with I'll do it but I suck at computers, just a warning. |
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RealDesertFox Registered User
Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 503
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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What time zone at 6:00? |
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Ash Evil Henchman
Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 267 Location: England
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Central I'd bet. |
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Nite Administrator
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: Purgatory
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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I'm advanced in computer networks and security, so if you guys need any help, i'm here for you |
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Nite Administrator
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: Purgatory
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Don't worry your tails my friend! These people must be extreme newbies.. they put there real contact info for billing info!
Registrant:
of, Day (TPEEWXQFBD)
11 Albert Rd
AMITYVILLE, NY 11701
US
Domain Name: DEFACERS-CHALLENGE.COM
Administrative Contact:
of, Day (35473296P) [email protected]
11 Albert Rd
AMITYVILLE, NY 11701
US
(631) 842-5471
Technical Contact:
Affinity Hosting, LLC (TS1126-ORG) [email protected]
16611 S. Vermont Ave
Gardena, CA 90247
US
310-354-2626 fax: 310-354-1592
Record expires on 21-Jun-2004.
Record created on 21-Jun-2003.
Database last updated on 5-Jul-2003 18:28:24 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM 64.94.117.195
NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM 216.52.121.228 |
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Whip-lash Kneel before me... for I am Root!
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 573
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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I've known about this "contest" since July 2nd.
I've taken a lot of effort in locking down the server since last December. Although I do expect a lot of attempts to break in, I highly doubt they'll be able to get in very far.
I do recommend that everyone change their passwords to be as cryptic as possible, though easy enough for you to remember. The crackers won't only go after the primary servers, which usually host several sites, but the individual sites, personal websites, etc., as well.
These "script kiddies" aren't usually too bright, though. They like to use tools and scripts created by other, smarter hackers. Rarely you will find one that actually knows what they are doing. They just want to do it to be cool in front of their friends, peers, and the hacker community at large, just to get recognition.
This is a childish attempt to gain a reputation and attention, though usually ending up with innocent website owners left to pick up the pieces while the crackers get a few good laughs.
Any attempt, both successful or not, will be faced with blacklisting, ISP notification, and possible sever legal action. Behaviour of this nature is simply unacceptable, and will not go unpunished. |
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Whip-lash Kneel before me... for I am Root!
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 573
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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:nite: wrote: | Don't worry your tails my friend! These people must be extreme newbies.. they put there real contact info for billing info! |
I doubt all of that is real information. The host, maybe, but the other contact information might as well be fake. |
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Nite Administrator
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: Purgatory
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Malicious hacking is in fact looked down upon by superior (whitehat) hackers. These vandals (should not even be addressed as hackers, only as script kiddies, at whip said), are what give whitehats like myself a bad wrap. We whitehats don't break into systems and destroy. They try to see how easy a server can be broken into, then tell the admins of any exploits or vulnerabilities in their system so they can fix the problems. |
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Nite Administrator
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: Purgatory
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Whip-lash wrote: | :nite: wrote: | Don't worry your tails my friend! These people must be extreme newbies.. they put there real contact info for billing info! |
I doubt all of that is real information. The host, maybe, but the other contact information might as well be fake. |
Quite possible, but even if it is, the web service there using has there IPs logged, and there always be a way to trace them. |
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Whip-lash Kneel before me... for I am Root!
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 573
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Mike Regan wrote: | Mine have always been cryptic. Random characters and I won't say more than that.
But I also have a complete copy of my Bookshelf on local drives so it can be fairly easily replaced. |
Good. I recommend everyone else do the same. I can only make full backups every so often, so make sure you've got a backup of your own site, email, etc. |
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Drauger Guest
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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I'm by no means a computer expert at all, I can't even find problems in my own system to solve. But my code is pretty safe unless they are total LOTR freaks and know as much as me, this is maybe one in every 3,000 people, so I feel safe. If it does happen I'll be glad to do anything possiable to help, yet once again I am bad at computer stuff. If police don't do anything, really bad cops where I live, I'll be glad to pound their heads in for you Whip. I'm not really a mean person but I hate it when people just randomly destroy stuff, especially if it rocks like this site. |
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Fishburne Administrator
Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 596 Location: Plano, Texas
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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well, lets see.
Just to be boring, I'm gonna make the systems open
I have a complete copy of all of it...sooo
NBD
and I've been dying to redo the server anyway.
Feh
_________________ "Do not Taunt Happy Fun God" -Cthulhu |
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Whip-lash Kneel before me... for I am Root!
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 573
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 6:28 am Post subject: |
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What a joke. Looks like the twerp who started this "contest" didn't get as many people to play along. And if you look at their site promoting the event, I wouldn't blame them.
Out of all the servers I maintain, only one even had a scan attack, lame as it was (it was blocked before the attacker even got a response back ). The rest of the "attacks" were all the typical DoD and old IIS vulnerability attacks... which of course didn't work for reasons that are pretty obvious. |
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Drauger Guest
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like I don't have to go pound some heads then. Well enjoy, oh yeah how do people attack and you defend on this computer thingy? |
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