The site of a UK student who had the idea of selling pixels as advertising space has been hit by a web attack. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4621158.stm
Yea and he already hasn't repair his site. If i bought the ads on this site i woud furious if my ad wouldn't work...
did you guys read it? it said it was fixed and why would any one be evil like that, dont be jealous because someone is way smarter than you and able to come up with ideas like that!
They had nothing to loose. I bet they didnt even think about it long seeing how they have plenty bots to take him down in a second, it just came instantly. If they did this when the homepage just started, it would be a bigger issue for him.
Alex Tews website is under attack. He received mails to send money to a certain account starting with $ 5,000.00 and now $50,000.00 As he not even answered the mails the attack began and took down his website. The hosting company was also not able to solve the problem. British police said that the attackers are likely from Russia. In meanwhile the site's online again.
Pretty much the site that started the whole pixel craze was attacked. The article is from yahoo. ========================================================== A Web site that earned an enterprising British student $1 million suffered a crippling attack by ransom-seeking hackers. Alex Tew, 21, said Wednesday that his Million Dollar Homepage was targeted after he publicized how it had helped him raise money for his university studies. Tew had sold 10,000 small squares of advertising space on the Web site for $100 each, achieving his target in four months. His initiative spawned several copycat sites. But Tew said that on Jan. 7, he received a threat from an organization calling itself "The Dark Group," demanding that he pay them $50,000 within 72 hours or face having his site taken down. "It was written in poor English, but the hackers asked for $50,000, saying that it was just 5 percent of what I had made," Tew said. "I did not reply to the e-mail. I had no intention of paying." Tew ignored the threat. Hackers then initiated a so-called distributed denial of service, in which attackers take command of third-party computers, through a virus or other security vulnerability, and instruct them to send junk data to the target site, overwhelming servers and causing the site to crash or perform poorly. Tew said the site now works normally. Tew, from Wiltshire, a county in southern England, said he informed the FBI because his site is hosted in the United States. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the agency was investigating. Such extortion cases targeting Web sites are occurring with greater frequency. ==========================================================
Well, that did not surprise me at all. With the publicity it had, vultures will surely go after him...
Whats funny are all the FBI inputs. They make it sound like they can actually do something but its an obvious waste of text saying that. What's there to investigate? its another Ddos case put in the trash bin.
No No. That's not true. They're going to travel the world, confiscating every single computer involved and jailing every single owner of those computers for a period not less than 5 years.