RE: The Biggest Hacking Incident in Web-Hosting History?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Google gets 86K+ hits on "Iskorpitx":

http://www.google.com/search?q=Iskorpitx&num=100&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=
100&sa=N

I suspect the 21K figure cited by zone-h is on the low side.  

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:50 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] The Biggest Hacking Incident in Web-Hosting History?

Via zone-h.

[snip]

Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle "Iskorpitx", succesfully
hacked 21,549 websites in one shot and defaced (on a secondary page) all of
them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with AtaTurk face on it)...

[snip]

More here:
http://www.zone-h.org/news/read/id=206009

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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