RIAA Hacked Yet Again
Posted by Mr magoo on 12 January 2003 - 00:13 · 19 comments & 3731 views
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#1 Posted by wired57 on 12 Jan 2003 - 00:29
- http://riaa.wired-one.com here is a mirror of it
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#2 Posted by Jasco on 12 Jan 2003 - 00:49
- really shocking its a ms webserver..
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#2.1 Posted by JaggedFlame on 12 Jan 2003 - 04:23
- C'mon, if RIAA can't get their heads out of their asses and fix music prices to prevent piracy, you think they can lock down a webserver correctly?
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#3 Posted by Kombatant on 12 Jan 2003 - 01:06
- Whichever webserver they use, they are gonna get hacked again, and again, and again...
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#3.1 Posted by wired57 on 12 Jan 2003 - 01:14
- [neoquote=#3.0 by Kombatant]Whichever webserver they use, they are gonna get hacked again, and again, and again... [/neoquote]
yeah, they are. if they knew how to better secure it and were smart enough they could restore it easily, but no they don't do any of that.
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#4 Posted by SMG on 12 Jan 2003 - 01:49
- surprise, surprise! I already knew that they ran IIS because all you need to do is go to http://www.riaa.org/admin, click cancel and then it says "Internet Information Services" above the line
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#5 Posted by WishX on 12 Jan 2003 - 03:18
- What kills me is, if you follow this link:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=riaa.org
...you get banner ads for Netcraft Security Testing... Is this not the very definition of irony? Doctor, heal thyself...
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#6 Posted by sonicice on 12 Jan 2003 - 03:22
- Okay, so is this: http://www.riaa.org/PR_Story.cfm?id=599 real or not?
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#6.1 Posted by Fotix on 12 Jan 2003 - 03:38
- Don't think so, it's like a dream come true
Plus it's riddled with spelling errors and terse language a PR lackey would never use.
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#7 Posted by mule on 12 Jan 2003 - 04:28
- ROFL
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#8 Posted by SecretAgentMan on 12 Jan 2003 - 07:22
- This made my day, lol.
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#9 Posted by xStainDx on 12 Jan 2003 - 09:27
- This has nothing to do with them using IIS, the point is they don't know dick about Internet Security, and no matter what they do they'll be taken down.
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#10 Posted by puckmaster87 on 12 Jan 2003 - 16:31
- ROFLMAO!!!!
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#11 Posted by stncttr908 on 12 Jan 2003 - 18:07
- Bah! Take that RIAA!
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#12 Posted by wired57 on 12 Jan 2003 - 18:14
- dang riaa.wired-one.com has gotten over 4500 page views in less then 24 hours
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#13 Posted by Eric Ferleman on 12 Jan 2003 - 19:46
- Too bad they restored the site so quickly. Still was amusing to see it hacked, the bastards.
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#14 Posted by cappuchok on 13 Jan 2003 - 07:47
- Ok, so we all know RIAA aren't exactly good guys. And it's good that people dare to stand up against them. But it's also sad that people will stoop to cracking their (admittedly non-existant) security and change their website. But let's keep track of what's what here. Hackers aren't the people who break into systems and change/steal information. Hackers are like most of Neowins readers, enthusiasts who enjoy learning about computers and programming neat gadgets. A hack, on the other hand, has many different meanings, some of which include "elaborate practical joke", "a quickly written program", "a carefully crafted program", "ingenious solution to a problem" and so on. The people who will do Bad Things to companies aren't hackers. They're crackers. Even though some of these crackers pull pranks (hacks) on the websites they've "owned", they aren't hackers. [url=http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon]The Jargon File[/url]
THe RIAA's website has been of recent times a focus point for "hacker agression", and once again has been hacked. It currently displays the message "No web site is configured at this address.", but Shah Web tells us this was up on the site earlier.
""RIAA - 0wn3d by.... ;p
oooh riaa want's to hack Filesharing Users / Servers ? - better lern to secure your own server...
Sorry Admin - had to deactivate ur accounts - they'll be reactivated after 2 hours."
Well - it just goes to show really. Once or twice is bad luck - more than that is in-competance :D
Update: Thanks to the member whom has put up this mirror - wired57.
The text on their front page reads:
"RIAA - 0wn3d by.... ;p
oooh riaa want's to hack Filesharing Users / Servers ? - better lern to secure your own server...
Sorry Admin - had to deactivate ur accounts - they'll be reactivated after 2 hours
greetz : Rage_X, BRAiNBUG, SyzL0rd, BSJ, PsychoD + all the others who want to stay anonymous :]
wanna contact ? h4x0r0815@mail.ru".
There are also several links to download popular file sharing programs, which state that RIAA sponser them.