Last weekend, the Belgian Army website was defaced! During a few hours, some well-known messages were displayed (such as “Own3d by…“). The website was “fixed”: And, a few hours later, updated: They don’t have backups?
Category: Websites
Lotto.be won!
Yesterday, there was a special Lotto game in Belgium: 7.000.000 EUR as Christmas gift. If seems that too many visitors tried to check the online results. Game over! 😉
www.rtbf.be slashdoted?
The RTBF website was in a strange state this afternoon: Due to their “End-of-Belgium” false announce yesterday, they were for sure slashdoted… I’m still trying to download the video 😉 [Update] ~4 hours later, same issue 😉
System admins creativity…
Today, I was scanning a web server with nikto. System admins have really a great creativity to find nice server tags 🙂 # telnet www.xxxx.be 80 Trying xx.xx.xx.xx… Connected to www.xxxx.be. Escape character is ‘^]’. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.xxxx.be HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:34:44 GMT
Powered by Google?
Read on CNET News: Google is testing new search engines feature via an unbranded web site: searchmash.
URL checker
I found a nice tool: the URL Checker (no not confuse with my URL watcher 😉 ). It scan the provided URL and display its structure “as a search robot”.
Only 90’s
For those who like 90’s music: Frequence3 Only 90’s.
Compromized forum…
Yesterday, while browsing one of my favourites online forum, i was surprised to see it corrupted… A hidden frame with Javascript code, a nice xml.wmf… I contacted the forum admin. Site is currently down. 🙁
Hotcaptcha: I’m not a bot!
For years, Webmasters always faced a major problem: How to be sure that data provided in an online form come from a “human” and not a bot? (ex: to extra contacts of databases or to flood with false data)
I google, you google, we google…
google became officially a verb in the Webster dictionary!