Re: Turkish Hacker 'Destroys' 100 New Zealand Websites

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Fergie wrote:
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> Via TVNZ.co.nz.
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> [snip]
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> An overseas computer hacker has managed to wipe out nearly 100 New Zealand
> websites.

What of the hundreds of others "wiping out" thousands every day? What of
the others yet used for something less destructive such as spam, or more
stealthy such as spying?

http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/815

        Gadi.

> 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.
>
> "On Monday morning I had been informed by clients that my website had been
> hacked," Fisher says.
>
> The demolition tally on New Zealand websites is growing.
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> [snip]
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> More:
> http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/989935
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> - - ferg
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