Time to add the Turkish ISP's to your firewall blacklists.
shftleftonSaturday 20 May 2006 - 18:48:38 Comments are turned off for this item
reddawn.org hacked by Turkish
Yesterday using an 18-month old exploit a script kiddie group known as "Turkhackerler" defaced the home page of reddawn.org and a few other sites I host. My software was patched well, but the exploit came from a file that should have been deleted (e107's patch process of just unzipping the new version into the directory is bad).
The defacement was pretty harmless and they didn't do any damage to the data besides defacing the index pages of my sites. Now you can add the [sarcasm] hugely popular [/sarcasm] reddawn.org to the list of sites that have been famously defaced: riaa.com, fbi.gov, microsoft.com to name a few.
The attacks apparently are coming as a response to the Mohammed cartoons that made big news a while back, condemning our defense of "free speech". I never saw the cartoons nor have I had the chance to read or think about the topic, but I can tell you that "free speech" is a very good thing, and when done legally and properly can be very effective.
To read more about the hundreds of Islamic protest defacements:
Some tips for my upset n00bish friends in Turkey and Islamic nations around the world:
- Don't use FrontPage to make your 1337 protest web site, Microsoft stands for all you're against.
- Don't use an old version of IE when you're pwning sites, or you might get pwned yourself. And, see above tip about using Microsoft products.
- Green-on-black color schemes only work for terminal sessions (you gained points on the 1337ne3$$ factor, but lost them all on aesthetics)
- Maybe if you wanted to spread your ideas and views on how the world sucks you should do it on *your own* web space and stop hijacking other legitimate sites
They probably won't read this but this post was mostly self-serving anyway.
Mr FuriousonFriday 10 March 2006 - 15:47:33 Comments are turned off for this item
Red Dawn Says "Good Bye" to Don Knotts
Today the world lost one of the "good guys". Actor Don Knotts died on Friday of pulmonary and respiratory complications at the age of 81. His career spanned seven TV series and more than 25 films. Red Dawn will miss him tremendously.
In late 2004 Red Dawn made a bid to try and get Don to play America's Army in TWL competition. Unfortunately, unspecified health problems forced him to cancel his application with the squad.
"We were initially concerned about his reaction time, but he quickly proved us wrong. We felt like we had a solid team player that could really push us into competing with the .x6's of the world. So, we were understandably dismayed when he had to withdraw. He was amazing. He was easily a top 5 player in the game." --Red Dawn Associate Suckup, RhittyGood bye Don. We'll never forget you.
We're a dim witted squad. Don't ever let it be said that we're smart or have any sort of wisdom. With that being said, I'd like to introduce Downtown Brown! He's our newest member and someone I'm sure will help to raise the IQ at least by .05 points.
Today the world lost one of the "good guys". Actor Don Knotts died on Friday of pulmonary and respiratory complications at the age of 81. His career spanned seven TV series and more than 25 films. Red Dawn will miss him tremendously.