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Re: Hacker has field day


From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 04:13:06 -0500 (CDT)

Forwarded from: Aj Effin Reznor <aj () reznor com>

[ http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1339964-6080-0,00.html - WK]

"InfoSec News was known to say....."

Reinhardt Buys, an internet legal expert, said there has never been a
cyber attack on such a scale in South Africa before. The previous
record was 26 websites on a single day.

All 53 websites that came under attack are supported by the Linux
operating system and were carried on the same server.

Is that to say all 53 sites were on the same physical box?  Vhosted?
If so does this really qualify as a mass hack if only one host has
to be compromised to take all the sites.  Can we get responsible reporting
in 2003?


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