The organisers of last weekend's hacking competition have declared a team from Brazil as the winner.
The results were posted on Defacers-challenge.com, showing Brazilian defacement crew 'Perect.br' as the clear winner with 152 points, more than double that of its nearest rival. But the Zone-H website, which keeps a record of hacking attacks and inadvertently found itself as the scorekeeper of the competition, criticised media interest in the challenge.
"Nothing would have happened if the media didn't pay so much attention, turning a non-case into something useful to fill the empty summer newspapers," said the website. Zone-H was in no way involved in the competition; the organisers simply decided to use the website's defacement archive as a scoreboard.
But some hackers performed a denial of service attack against Zone-H in a bid to sabotage the contest.
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The results were posted on Defacers-challenge.com, showing Brazilian defacement crew 'Perect.br' as the clear winner with 152 points, more than double that of its nearest rival. But the Zone-H website, which keeps a record of hacking attacks and inadvertently found itself as the scorekeeper of the competition, criticised media interest in the challenge.
"Nothing would have happened if the media didn't pay so much attention, turning a non-case into something useful to fill the empty summer newspapers," said the website. Zone-H was in no way involved in the competition; the organisers simply decided to use the website's defacement archive as a scoreboard.
But some hackers performed a denial of service attack against Zone-H in a bid to sabotage the contest.
News source: vnunet - Hacking competition announces winner View: Neowin - Web vandalism contest results unclear View: Neowin - Hackers' challenge Web site goes dark
Zone-H was offline for longer than expected because the site couldn't handle the flood of traffic generated by the news reports that linked to it.
Despite being labelled as the "messiest day in internet history", the contest proved to be a damp squib. Only a few thousand websites were attacked, marginally more than the daily average.
But the high profile of the event meant that webmasters were on their toes over the weekend.
"A good word from our side to all those security companies that issued an alert. A bad word to all those who underestimated the case. It's better to be warned than to be hacked, right?" said Zone-H.
funny award for participants... is that even english?
HACKERS SUCK D*CK! PUT YOUR SKILLS TO GOOD USE INSTEAD OF BAD.
Last edited by 21337 on 10 Jul 2003 - 13:08
152 points its pretty over whelming. They have a total of 1305 defacements under thier name, on Zone.H
Dirty bugger is gonna try to take Canada next I bet...
hacker
cracker
Hackers (the movie) - the bomb that firmly established 'hacker' as the word of choice for news media when in reality reporting about crackers.
And while definitions in most up-to-date dictionaries do define hackers and crackers in basically the same way the Jargon File does (with some additional local or historical senses of 'hacker'), media all over the world still misuse and abuse the hacker terminology to the point where most geeks and hackers feel uncomfortable using jargon in public, afraid it might be misinterpreted by misled mundanes.
Some additional fun reading includes 'The Hacker FAQ', which is a document answering management's most frequently asked questions about their tech staff. And the other way around, geeks might enjoy 'The Manager FAQ', which aids in dealing with the suits and PHBs at work.
Last edited by 21337 on 10 Jul 2003 - 13:09
there i found it: http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/view/id=146145/
Hopefully you plugged the hole, or at least contacted your hosting provider.
I agree with ya, it's still wrong... hell, it'd be a heckuva a lot easier to just drop an email to ya.
That is an absolutely absurd example of a typical defacer... a defacement would be more like your lugnuts missing from your wheel and them shoe polishing a note on your car (instead of writing one on a piece of paper).... wrong way to go about it, yes.. a pain, yes... would I be pissed, yes... against the law, more than likely...... but still, i'd be grateful to be told about it.
Again, Im not defending their actions... there are a lot of easier ways to notify ya of a security hole... but as a whole, defacers do serve a purpose.
Last edited by 10547 on 09 Jul 2003 - 21:26
They also try to act like the victim "designated *against its will*, to be witness of this competition" and the DoS attack, etc.
Vastly over-exagerating the impact of the contest by stating "messiest day in the whole Internet history"
C'mon Zone-H... we're not that stupid...
"Yesterday, July 6th has to be remembered as the messiest day in the whole Internet history." zone-h
"Only a few thousand websites were attacked, marginally more than the daily average." the article
I dunno what Zone-H gains from all the publicity, but its clear they worked it for all they could get.
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