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mohdowais
Sheikh of Yak Knowledge

1456 Posts

Posted - 2003-11-13 : 00:04:08
I just read this in the Financial Times, and it's certainly not good news:

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1066565805264&p=1012571727088
(I think this link will disappear in a week or so)

The mafia's been doing this long enough in real life, and it was only a matter of time before this appeared in cyberspace. Ah well, I guess that is the price one must pay to live in these times.

wais


Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

JustinBigelow
SQL Gigolo

1157 Posts

Posted - 2003-11-13 : 01:04:41
quote:
The mafia's been doing this long enough in real life, and it was only a matter of time before this appeared in cyberspace.



"Alright yuse guys are gonna pay up or your DNS server is gonna meet with an accident, capice?"

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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!

4970 Posts

Posted - 2003-11-13 : 01:22:47
I hate it when you wake up next to a severed Yak head.


Damian
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AjarnMark
SQL Slashing Gunting Master

3246 Posts

Posted - 2003-11-13 : 12:54:26
quote:
The wave of hacker attacks that brought down the websites of big companies over the past 10 days has been abetted by complacency among some of the victims, say industry experts.

Lock the door? Why would I do that? Nobody's ever taken anything before. And that new hole in the front window...somebody would have to really want to get in here to go to the trouble of using that. We have good people who work here. Nobody would want to hurt us...

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