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Taken from the Metro Paper
07/07/03
"Computer security experts were left red faced yesterday by hackers who broke into their website - during a contest to bring chaos to the internet.
A mysterious hacker, known only as Eleonora[67], issued a challenege on www.defacers-challenege.com to deface 6,000 sites in 6 hours.
One of the first sites to be hit when the Defacers' Challenge began at 6am was the site run by Zone-H, which records web vandelism.
The estonian based company was knocked offline for much of the day because of high volumne of ligitemate visitors and apparent attempts by hackers to bog down its computer servers, said founder Roberto Preatoni.
But fears last week that major companies would be hit appeard to be groundless 'there were no big names.' said Mr Preatoni.
During the challeneg points were awarded for the number and type of computer servers hackers infiltrated.
Breaching MS Windows would earn one point, but the more tricky MacOS systems would earn Five points.
Hackers were urged to email details of the sites they had vadalised, with the winner receiving computer equipment.
However, last night computer security firms joined Zone-H to play down the challenge's impact.
'None of our customers have called to report problems. It's all quiet on the Western Front.' Said Joanne Hughes, a spokeswomen for US_Dutch company Via netwoks which hosts 50,000 business sites."
I wonder who one?
07/07/03
"Computer security experts were left red faced yesterday by hackers who broke into their website - during a contest to bring chaos to the internet.
A mysterious hacker, known only as Eleonora[67], issued a challenege on www.defacers-challenege.com to deface 6,000 sites in 6 hours.
One of the first sites to be hit when the Defacers' Challenge began at 6am was the site run by Zone-H, which records web vandelism.
The estonian based company was knocked offline for much of the day because of high volumne of ligitemate visitors and apparent attempts by hackers to bog down its computer servers, said founder Roberto Preatoni.
But fears last week that major companies would be hit appeard to be groundless 'there were no big names.' said Mr Preatoni.
During the challeneg points were awarded for the number and type of computer servers hackers infiltrated.
Breaching MS Windows would earn one point, but the more tricky MacOS systems would earn Five points.
Hackers were urged to email details of the sites they had vadalised, with the winner receiving computer equipment.
However, last night computer security firms joined Zone-H to play down the challenge's impact.
'None of our customers have called to report problems. It's all quiet on the Western Front.' Said Joanne Hughes, a spokeswomen for US_Dutch company Via netwoks which hosts 50,000 business sites."
I wonder who one?