Hacking Contest

[Net_Wizard]

Just received an email from my server provider regarding a possible defacement of web sites by July 6th.

Here are the articles regarding this threat

[informationweek.com...]
Hacking Contest Threatens Web Sites July 2, 2003
Government and private-sector security experts say hackers will try to earn points and prizes by defacing Web sites this weekend.
By George V. Hulme

and

[techweb.com...]
Hacker Contest Could Strike This Weekend; Thousands Of Sites Threatened
July 2, 2003 (3:36 p.m. EST) By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News

Please back-up your site and pass this info to your hosting provider or administrator

[outrun]

Some more here,
[webmasterworld.com...]
regards,
Mark

[Net_Wizard]

Why would such an important matter posted at Local/Foo? I wouldn't have known if you didn't posted that link and btw I did searched for h***ing here and it never showed up :D

Hopefully, the rest would be aware of such thing.

Cheers