Re: General Info Bulletin from DHS

[Gerry Sneeringer <sneeri () NTS UMD EDU>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Bruhn, Mark S. wrote:

> I've also been told that chatter implies that certain groups
> have issued a general challenge to determine is anyone can
> deface 6000 web sites in 6 hours, on July 4th.  That's as
> specific as the information is.  Most of us remember, I'm sure,
> the Chinese defacements and the resulting American retaliatory
> defacements, a couple of years ago.  It was easy to recover from
> those, because most times the intruder just renamed and replaced
> the index file with their own.  May not be so easy if it happens
> again.

You can read about the challenge at:
http://www.defacers-challenge.com/defeng.htm

-Gerry

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Gerry Sneeringer, CISSP
IT Security Officer
University of Maryland
Office of Information Technology
(301) 405-2996

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