Hacker Challenge

Did you guys hear that today (July 6, 2003), there is a competition amongst hackers to hack into 6000 websites in 6 hours?

A lot of servers shut down on purpose today just to avoid this.

Anyone have some more info on it?

i heard about this but i dont really have anymore info

Same here..heard but no info. Its been on the news since friday i think.

Hmmm... didn't see anything on 2600

I don't know, maybe it's bogus, maybe it's not.

ewww. 2600. I hate there magazine.

That was also posted in March, that same thing.

one of the 2 most competitive servers to hack right now is the OSx (the other is Solaris? cant remember).... guess since its now an OS that can be used as a server we'll start seeing crackers finding vulnerabilities.... should be interesting. That sucks about web servers though =\....

I didn't hear anything yet hopefully nothing happens tho

Yeah I just saw something about his one TechTV... I guess there was a list of the sites that they "hacked" but when techtv talked to the companys on the list none of them actually were hacked...

I think it was just a bunch of crap... they probably just wanted people to shut down their servers thinking that they were going to be hacked, when really there was not hacking going on :P

Does anyone here who uses php ever read about the programming vulernabilities you can create by allowing user input? if you aren't careful?

well there arent not very many things that they can change if you have all of your stuff chmoded correctly, but I do see where things can be done that allow users to change things that you dont want them too :P