Re: [ISN] Hacker has field day

From: InfoSec News (isnat_private)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 02:13:06 PDT

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[ 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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