Hacktivists deface Republican web sites with anarchist propaganda

[Herbaholic00]

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/headline.php?id=862


Politically motivated hackers calling themselves "the Internet Liberation Front (ILF)" have defaced six Republican web sites on January 18.
On the modified pages, it read â??In solidarity with the billions around the world who are being oppressed under the Bush agenda, The Internet Liberation Front has hacked and defaced six Republican websites who push forward the sick and violent ideology of warfare, capitalism, and profit over people.â?� followed by an anti-Bush and anarchist text. The hacktivists probably exploited the well-documented vulnerability in phpBB, which was widely used by crackers and worms over the past weeks.

For those who remember, the â??Internet Liberation Frontâ?� or â??ILFâ?� brings us ten years back in the computer security history, when they hacked into companies like Pipeline, ibm, at&t.. and tons of other accomplishments including the defacement of the â??Hackersâ?� movie homepage during a defcon conference (a mirror is available here: http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attr...a.com-hackers/ ), even though the â??groupâ?� seemed to be an international movement of independant hackers who shared the same ideas, like explained in the defacement: â??We are not a specific group of people. We are a generation of hackers who feel indignation and want to build a world free from parasitic bosses and rulers. All who want to join the resistance movement are free to use the name ILF. We are everywhereâ?�.

What we can notice is that the defacements were quite organized, especially in the way they were done to hit the media and to look for worldwide supporters to help them spread their message.

The defaced sites were:

www.arizonayr.com

www.freedominstitute.ca

www.republicanfirst.com

www.Students4Freedom.com

www.freedominion.ca

www.CollegeConservative.com

January 20 05:00 GMT: 3 of them are still defaced, but a mirror is also available here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/mirror/id=1996392/







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Herbaholic00 Reviewed by Herbaholic00 on 01-21-2005. Hacktivists deface Republican web sites with anarchist propaganda http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/headline.php?id=862 Politically motivated hackers calling themselves "the Internet Liberation Front (ILF)" have defaced six Republican web sites on January 18. On the modified pages, it read â??In solidarity with the billions around the world who are being oppressed under the Bush agenda, The Internet Liberation Front has hacked and defaced six Republican websites who push forward the sick and violent ideology of warfare, capitalism, and profit over people.â?� Rating: 5

[robert42]

hahah yeh i love that shit hacking 4 da causeeeeeeee

[psychocat]

Hackers of the world unite !!
Gotta love it.

[PurplePotatoes]

My friend crashed the entire west coast's internet believe it or not, or something like that. The government just blamed some other guy as a scapegoat and sent him to jail (or just gave him a new identity or something).

[Nullific]

You'll be seeing a lot more cyber terrorism in the future. I doubt much of it will be foriegn though.

[Sedater18]

sweet

[llamaman666]

Even though i dont like those sights they shouldnt get hacked and crushed

[Euphoric]

i wish i was a hacktivist..i have lots of good ideas mwahaha

[SomeGuy]

hacking not hard..just go grap a computer out of a dumpster and download yourself linux...your already on your way! "in a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates" ~ Linux ....sadly i dont have it yet though :-

[moeburn]

Step one: Write or steal a program that will ping an IP address, endlessly.
Step two: Write or steal a program to send the pinging program, to everyone and their neighbor.
Step three: Remotely activate the pinging program, to ping your least favorite website.

When www.windowsupdate.com got pinged by most of the world, it shutdown for a couple days.