[sdiy] why are hackers attacking synthdiy.com????

[Samppa Tolvanen]

On 7/25/08, jvastine <jvastine at charter.net> wrote:

>  It looks like some malicious script kiddie has hacked the website...

Script Kiddie? Get real.

>  (Why does this always have to happen when it is vacation time??? :/

Statistics, please?

>  I can understand why some of these individuals would attack corporate,
> governmental, or the "system" websites, but I find it difficult to comprehend the > thrill that they derive from attacks upon innocent and useful websites. These
> are shall we say somewhat "twisted" individuals.

You're definitely getting it! It's not defacement or stealing
information (like synthdiy.com did itself). It's about vulnerable
webservers (mostly IIS), vulnerable browser (definitely IE) and
building a botnet with combination of those.

""somewhat "twisted" individuals.", eh? Next time I refer to Mob or
Mafia, I'll use that term.

Samppa