despite the
shaking and twitching from withdrawal.
We're back online again., page 4
privacy
well it's nice to see ATS up and running again, I hope SO fills us in on the in's and outs of this hack attack. hell I even missed our members
DENY IGNORANCE FOREVER!!!!reply posted on 20-4-2005 @ 07:49 PM by Ycon
It's so good to see ATS back. Good Job SO
It's the new Popes fault. Thought this site was unhackable or atleast close.
I played with some numbers while ATS was down. Look at this
I used american numerology A=1 B=2 C=3 and so on
New Pope
His age = 78
Benedict XVI = 78
both of these numbers can be added together 7+8 = 15, 1+5=6
So his age breaks down to 6 and chosen name Benedict XVI is 6.
Next I calculated his name, Joseph Ratzinger = 195, 1+9+5=15, 1+5=6
Anyway, I thought this was suppose to be the good Pope, so why all the 6's
Oh had to add this, the post number for my post ends in 78. Below
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Just a coincidence?
[edit on 20-4-2005 by Ycon]
It's the new Popes fault. Thought this site was unhackable or atleast close.
I played with some numbers while ATS was down. Look at this
I used american numerology A=1 B=2 C=3 and so on
New Pope
His age = 78
Benedict XVI = 78
both of these numbers can be added together 7+8 = 15, 1+5=6
So his age breaks down to 6 and chosen name Benedict XVI is 6.
Next I calculated his name, Joseph Ratzinger = 195, 1+9+5=15, 1+5=6
Anyway, I thought this was suppose to be the good Pope, so why all the 6's
Oh had to add this, the post number for my post ends in 78. Below
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Just a coincidence?
[edit on 20-4-2005 by Ycon]
reply posted on 20-4-2005 @ 09:49 PM by smallpeeps
Someone I know said it was web wide attack using 'packets'? or something.
Probably your friend was referring to the 'packets' that make up all the traffic on the Internet. These are the packets that TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) uses to deliver everything on the web.
Basically, every 'infected' computer connected to the web will obey commands given to it. So if your computer is hijacked (by your opening an email wrongly or whatever), a hacker could use it to continuously bombard a target site with a million requests, thereby shutting it down. This is called denial of service attack and the largest documented one involved something around 30,000 computers. NOTE: That's 30,000 computers infected with a single specific program/virus which has a specific instruction that wakes it up to do it's dirty work. Maybe your friend was referring to a DOS attack?
This situation sounds different. The original post says there was massive database corruption, but what was the cause of it? It's not hard to corrupt a DB if you can trick it into overwriting certain sectors but you still have to gain accesss to the server. Every database has a sword of damocles command hanging over its head and cutting the thread is as easy as however hard it is to gain access. I'm impressed at SO's discipline in regards to backups. 24 hours of lost data is considered a major success of your backup methodology. Well done, SO.
Here's the latest threat list from Symantec. No database viruses in the last couple days, but the ATS bug could have been a program which was inserted at any time in the past. I guess it's a subject for RATS anyway.
securityresponse.symantec.com...
[edit on 20-4-2005 by smallpeeps]
