Hackers Try To Cause Seizures On Epilepsy Site
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Turtle replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 11:21am |
 Coolness: 69230 | SAN FRANCISCO - Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims.
But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get seizures when they're exposed to flickering images, a response also caused by some video games and cartoons.The attack happened when hackers exploited a security hole in the foundation's publishing software that allowed them to quickly make numerous posts and overwhelm the site's support forums. Within the hackers' posts were small flashing pictures and links — masquerading as helpful — to pages that exploded with kaleidoscopic images pulsating with different colors. "They were out to create seizures," said Ken Lowenberg, senior director of Web and print publishing for the foundation. He said legitimate users are no longer able to post animated images to the support forum or create direct links to other sites, and it is now moderated around the clock. He said the FBI is investigating the breach. Security experts said the attack highlights the dangers of Web sites giving visitors great freedom to post content to different parts of the site. In another recent attack, hackers exploited a simple coding vulnerability in Sen. Barack Obama's Web site to redirect users visiting the community blogs section to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's official campaign site. The hackers who infiltrated the Epilepsy Foundation's site didn't appear to care about profit. The harmful pages didn't appear to try to push down code that would allow the hacker to gain control of the victims' computers, for instance."I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline — they don't realize how cruel it is," said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc. "It was an opportunity waiting to happen for some mean-spirited kid." In a similar attack this year, a piece of malicious code was released that disabled software that reads text aloud from a computer screen for blind and visually impaired people. That attack appeared to have been designed to cripple the computers of people using illegal copies of the software, researchers said. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 11:29am |
 Coolness: 686515 | This is like, 2-3 months old news, right? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Turtle replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 12:13pm |
| Coolness: 69230 | i am not sure saw it today on the front page of my msn!!! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 12:43pm |
| Coolness: 686515 | Well it was front-page news like 2-3 months ago on tech websites like hardocp and wired.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 2:21pm |
 Coolness: 266880 | Cruel indeed, but I'm still laughing. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 2:27pm |
 Coolness: 295900 | me 2 |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Deadfunk replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 6:35pm |
 Coolness: 153930 | yeah, but these people arent real "hacker" caus hackers would never do something stupid as this... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 10:47pm |
| Coolness: 266880 | lolllllll |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu May 8, 2008 @ 11:19pm |
| Coolness: 686515 | yeah, but these people arent real "hacker" caus hackers would never do something stupid as this...
You DO realise that there are two diffrent kinds of hackers, black hat and white hat, right? One of those two cracks systems/software to point out the weaknesses to a company so that their software can be secure, the other tends to do things like steal credit card info, delete customer databases, shit like that.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Fri May 9, 2008 @ 12:57am |
 Coolness: 146125 | as chuck norris says "good guys wear black"
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Fri May 9, 2008 @ 1:06am |
| Coolness: 266880 | And dead men don't wear plaid |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri May 9, 2008 @ 1:09am |
| Coolness: 686515 | What about Kurdt? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Deadfunk replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 10:10am |
| Coolness: 153930 | screwhead, exactly
and they are suposed to be called crackers and the good one hackers. but heh, who gives a shit lol |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 10:11am |
| Coolness: 295900 | script kiddies! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 10:18am |
| Coolness: 266880 | crackers? like so..
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» No_Comply replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 10:26am |
 Coolness: 85860 | Yes, EXACLTY like so. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 10:32am |
 Coolness: 159160 | Originally Posted By DEADFUNK
screwhead, exactly and they are suposed to be called crackers and the good one hackers. but heh, who gives a shit lol No no no no no. Crackers use premade programs to inflict problems (i.e the Netbus craze in the late 90s). Hackers CODE. Huge diff :D *whistles away in the dark* |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Deadfunk replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 12:30pm |
| Coolness: 153930 | haha im not a hacker neither i have any real knowledge in hacking, so i cant really argue, i answered by the best of my knowledge in this domain =) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 12:37pm |
| Coolness: 159160 | S'okay. It's not like the terms are so terribly official. I've done a few things as a teen (while majoring in computer programming) but nothing very harsh. Some friends of mine really got into it, though. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon May 12, 2008 @ 3:23pm |
| Coolness: 686515 | crackers also tend to just, well, crack! Cracking, as in software copyright protection bypass, like making serial generators, removing phone-home features, shit like that..
The hacking 'world' is (or at least, was) seperate based on what you were doing. H/P/V/A/C/C; Hacking (breaking into systems), Phreaking (exploiting the phone systems), Viruses (coding viruses), Anarchy (making shit from The Anarchists Cookbook), Cracking (software copy protection cracking) and Carding (getting/using/generating/abusing credit cards) |
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