Sorry -- got distracted and this didn't get finished and sent at the time...
Fergie wrote: > Via TVNZ.co.nz. > > [snip] > > An overseas computer hacker has managed to wipe out nearly 100 New Zealand > websites. > > Some of the customers, who are mostly with the service provider ihug, are > having to re-build their websites at a cost of thousands of dollars. > > Kathryn Fisher, who sells her sunbeds on the internet, is one of an > estimated 200,000 website owners who have suffered the same fate around the > world thanks to a notorious Turkish hacker called Iskorpitz. <<snip>> More a mass defacement, involving many thousands of sites worldwide, methinks. That's "Iskorpitz" normal modus operandi, no? http://www.zone-h.org/component/option,com_attacks/Itemid,43/filter,1/ filter_defacer,iskorpitx/filter_date_select,exact/filter_date_y,2007/ filter_date_m,01/filter_date_d,14/page,32 I saw this on breakfast TV here (NZ) this AM and the quality of coverage, and angle the coverage took, were quite depressingly misleading... My money is on the smaller hosting company ihug took over running some older, shonky, known-seriously-flakey and long overdue patching or replacing web app... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
