{"id":12,"date":"2003-07-03T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steenhagen.us\/~jake\/trunk\/?p=12"},"modified":"2003-07-03T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T14:48:57","slug":"coordinated-hacker-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2003\/07\/coordinated-hacker-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinated hacker attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <acronym title=\"Internet Security Systems, Inc.\">ISS<\/acronym> there&#8217;s a massive hacker (or should that be cracker?) attack brewing for Sunday, July 6. This event was apparently dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defacers-challenge\">Defacers Challenge<\/a> [NOTE: That web site was taken down yesterday]. The story has made it&#8217;s way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/securitytopics\/security\/hacking\/story\/0,10801,82730,00.html?nas=PM-82730\">ComputerWorld<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/07\/02\/2149226\">slashdot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=defacers+challenge\">many other news sites<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogdigger.com\/search.jsp?queryString=defacers+challenge&amp;sortby=date&amp;days=30\">a few blogs<\/a>. Even though I&#8217;m sure my everything on my system is properly patched (my Red Hat Network Alert tool has a blue check), I shut down any service I can live without for the next few days. Whether or not this started as a prank, I&#8217;m sure some script kiddies will take it seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ISS there&#8217;s a massive hacker (or should that be cracker?) attack brewing for Sunday, July 6. This event was apparently dubbed the Defacers Challenge [NOTE: That web site was taken down yesterday]. The story has made it&#8217;s way to ComputerWorld, slashdot, many other news sites, and a few blogs. Even though I&#8217;m sure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2003\/07\/coordinated-hacker-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coordinated hacker attack?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EJi-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}