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www.G4tv.com wrote:OH NOES!11!!

You may not have noticed, but early Tuesday someone stole your megahurtz.

Hackers (traced to South Korea) briefly overwhelmed 3 of 13 key computers that manage global internet traffic.

Most of the disruption went unnoticed, but was the most significant attack on the internets since 2002.

The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS which manages the all of of your favorite '.org' sites like Slashdot, Wikipedia and NAMBLA.

Breitbart.com: Hackers Attack Key Net Traffic Computers

I know very little about hacking, but this seemed pretty wild. The idea that someone could have the power to damage so many computers all around the world at one time seems pretty darn big. Now, as mentioned above, mainly web sites were damaged, and it was only temporary, but could this be a sign of things to come? Or am I just paranoid. Discuss.

If they can do that, then they can probably do it all.

I don't care, interwebs sux

The 2002 attack shutdown 8 of the 13 main DNS servers, if I remember correctly.
That's pretty impressive.

Most hackers who attempt major stuff (i.e. anything that makes the news) usually get arrested within the month and get either a serious fine or major jail time. Computers are very traceable, even with proxies and such.

The traceability of a computer working through a proxy depends on the anonymity of a proxy and how willing they are to cooperate with law enforcement/cyber crimes forces.

I've seen some sites making this out to be a huge deal. And unless I read wrong, it seems the targets were just large DNS servers. It's not like these servers are the only DNS servers and stuff; they're just some higher bandwidth ones. Since the internet is a computer to computer infrastructure, you can't just hax0r the interwebs.

I noticed a slowdon on some of my stuff yesterday...my interweb was acting up strangely.

Also, hackers fail.

i suppose if the web had any sort of centralized point of failure, it would be the higher bandwidth fiber optic lines, such as unersea ones, and main DNS servers, and organizations like the internic (not sure if they control the main DNS servers or not, can't remember). but seriously, the most effective way to globally affect the internet would probably be to take down the DNS servers by finding and exploit that would let you either damage the OS, BIOS, or destroy the HDD's contents (the ip-domain name list, for example)

but even then, i'm sure they have triple backups and everything, meaning even a successful attack would only bring down the internet a day.

shadowkhas wrote:Also, hackers fail.

you need to redefine you definition of hacker. too bad the media doesn't care to be correct.

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Most hackers who attempt major stuff (i.e. anything that makes the news) usually get arrested within the month and get either a serious fine or major jail time. Computers are very traceable, even with proxies and such.

Sereously, will I get arrested? Because I REALLY dont want to go to jail right now.

shadowkhas wrote:I noticed a slowdon on some of my stuff yesterday...my interweb was acting up strangely.

Also, hackers fail.

I was just looking at some stuff, I didnt know it slowed you down.
also, I DONT FAIL!

[cc]z@nd! wrote:

shadowkhas wrote:Also, hackers fail.

you need to redefine you definition of hacker. too bad the media doesn't care to be correct.

...shadowkhas correctly used the term 'Hacker' in his statement.

And yes, they do fail.

Noez they dont ._O
because I dont fail.
so there...

Macsforever wrote:Noez they dont ._O
because I dont fail.
so there...

Honestly, how old are you? I hate it when people who download "illegal" programs and shut down aim screens consider themselves hackers. Honestly, even if you were one of the greatest hackers in the world, no one would care. All you people do is cause fixable chaos. Nothing to be proud of, and most certainly gives you no bragging rights. Don't consider yourself "under the system" just because you can ping an ip and steal data. woopdi-effin-doo.

SHOUTrvb wrote:Honestly, how old are you? I hate it when people who download "illegal" programs and shut down aim screens consider themselves hackers. Honestly, even if you were one of the greatest hackers in the world, no one would care. All you people do is cause fixable chaos. Nothing to be proud of, and most certainly gives you no bragging rights. Don't consider yourself "under the system" just because you can ping an ip and steal data. woopdi-effin-doo.

kibito87 wrote:

SHOUTrvb wrote:Honestly, how old are you? I hate it when people who download "illegal" programs and shut down aim screens consider themselves hackers. Honestly, even if you were one of the greatest hackers in the world, no one would care. All you people do is cause fixable chaos. Nothing to be proud of, and most certainly gives you no bragging rights. Don't consider yourself "under the system" just because you can ping an ip and steal data. woopdi-effin-doo.

http://members.boards.ie/patrick/Pwned.jpg

That one was right on, nicely said,both of you xD

Im 15. And I Hack because its fun.
You should try it, really.
shadowkhas, Im in your computer and I found some tracking cookies. So I deleted them, jeez scan your computer every day man.

Macsforever Hostname lookup: fl-76-2-118-3.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [ 249 Posts ]

u'v just been hacked. -_-

Macsforever wrote:shadowkhas, Im in your computer and I found some tracking cookies. So I deleted them, jeez scan your computer every day man.

Yeah, because you got past my firewalls and had my IP magically.

Macsforever wrote:Sereously, will I get arrested? Because I REALLY dont want to go to jail right now.

If you keep lololololololh4xlol-ing.

you need to redefine you definition of hacker. too bad the media doesn't care to be correct.

I was referring to these. Honestly, if I said "Crackers fail" then everyone would get on me about how Ritz taste really good.

shadowkhas wrote:

hacker. too bad the media doesn't care to be correct.

I was referring to these. Honestly, if I said "Crackers fail" then everyone would get on me about how Ritz taste really good.

Especially Ritz Bitz...

Macsforever wrote:Im 15. And I Hack because its fun.
You should try it, really.
shadowkhas, Im in your computer and I found some tracking cookies. So I deleted them, jeez scan your computer every day man.

Macsforever, you have openly admitted to committing an illegal action. Whether you actually did it isn't the case. Consider yourself on probation from posting for however long I or another staff member say.

You will not be able to post for a while.

[Macsforever]omg i froze your aim with my uber 1337 appz that i downloaded from the interwebzz i r so 1337 because i h4xor j00 compz![/Macsforever]

SHOUTrvb wrote:

Macsforever wrote:Im 15. And I Hack because its fun.
You should try it, really.
shadowkhas, Im in your computer and I found some tracking cookies. So I deleted them, jeez scan your computer every day man.

Macsforever, you have openly admitted to committing an illegal action. Whether you actually did it isn't the case. Consider yourself on probation from posting for however long I or another staff member say.

You will not be able to post for a while.

If I admit to carrying a bathtub with a friend over my town green on a Sunday, will I get bant too? It's a law here.