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Security officials had worried about widespread Net attacks
THE “DEFACER’S CHALLENGE” got off to a quick start on Sunday with 300 attacks reported minutes after the 0600 GMT official start, said Roberto Preatoni, founder of Estonia-based Zone-H.org, a site that tracks hack attacks.
“There were no big names,” he said. But he added his own site, www.zone-h.org, was knocked offline for much of the day because of a high volume of legitimate visitors and apparent attempts by hackers to bog down his computer servers.
According to the contest Web site www.defacers-challenge.com, which was taken offline last week, hackers were urged to prove their skills by defacing as many Web sites as possible during a six-hour span on Sunday.
Points were awarded for the number and type of computer servers they infiltrated, the rules stated.
Concern grew among cyber security organizations last week that the competition would cripple countless Web sites, but by Sunday afternoon as the event was drawing to a close there was no sign of damage among the Web’s most popular sites.
The Web’s largest Web sites, including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com, were functioning as normal on Sunday.
“It seems to be a damp squib,” said Graham Cluley, spokesman for UK-based security firm Sophos.
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THE “DEFACER’S CHALLENGE” got off to a quick start on Sunday with 300 attacks reported minutes after the 0600 GMT official start, said Roberto Preatoni, founder of Estonia-based Zone-H.org, a site that tracks hack attacks.
“There were no big names,” he said. But he added his own site, www.zone-h.org, was knocked offline for much of the day because of a high volume of legitimate visitors and apparent attempts by hackers to bog down his computer servers.
According to the contest Web site www.defacers-challenge.com, which was taken offline last week, hackers were urged to prove their skills by defacing as many Web sites as possible during a six-hour span on Sunday.
Points were awarded for the number and type of computer servers they infiltrated, the rules stated.
Concern grew among cyber security organizations last week that the competition would cripple countless Web sites, but by Sunday afternoon as the event was drawing to a close there was no sign of damage among the Web’s most popular sites.
The Web’s largest Web sites, including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com, were functioning as normal on Sunday.
“It seems to be a damp squib,” said Graham Cluley, spokesman for UK-based security firm Sophos.
Full Story:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/935395.asp?0dm=C216T
