Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked

[Czar]

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57048,00.html/

great article 🙂

 

[FoBoT]

hehe, funny

This time, the defacement resulted in bogus press releases on the front door, touting the joys of cheese and interspecies romantic relationships.

not that cracking web sites is nice

 

[Soybomb]

I'm sending in a resume 😀

 

[Linflas]

"I believe that the RIAA honestly has no idea what they're up against," Ferrell said. "The RIAA and MPAA are Internet disasters of potentially epic proportions just waiting to happen, and while I don't ordinarily side with defacers and script kiddies, in this case I'll make an exception."

LMAO.

 

[bmacd]

great article..thanks for the read 🙂

-=bmacd=-

 

[BillGates]

Definitely a good read - I didn't know they got nailed again.

 

[Miramonti]

basically it says they keep getting hacked because they're very ignorantly hackable, and their tactics are pissing off all the queens in the bees nest of hackers...not a good idea. 🙂

 

[her209]

I'm waiting for the day a hacker installs Kazaa Lite on the webserver... LOL.

 

[silverpig]

"Hey, don't you think they should have noticed that press release urging people to have sex with barnyard animals by now?" one chat participant asked, several hours after the bogus press releases first hit the RIAA site.

Haha!

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: Linflas

"I believe that the RIAA honestly has no idea what they're up against," Ferrell said. "The RIAA and MPAA are Internet disasters of potentially epic proportions just waiting to happen, and while I don't ordinarily side with defacers and script kiddies, in this case I'll make an exception."

LMAO.

Yea, if they didn't stick a name to that quote, I could have swore that they quoted me 🙂

 

[Chadder007]

IB the web admin of RIAA doesn't like working for them and doesn't care to fix the problems. 😀

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Some security experts said in no uncertain terms that the latest defacements indicate the RIAA is clueless about technology. They charge that this ignorance has resulted in the RIAA attempting to combat digital file sharing in ineffective, counter-productive ways.

The flaws that people are exploiting to access their site are elementary security issues, and there's no excuse for an organization that purports to understand the dark side of the Internet to leave such gaping holes in their own network infrastructure."

Ferrell and others predicted that if the RIAA escalates its antipiracy efforts, the organization's site will be completely knocked off the Internet.

"The RIAA honestly has no idea what they're up against. They will be toast the first time they try to shut down a P2P network being used by any serious black hats," Ferrell said.

The URL was widely circulated on Internet relay chat groups on Monday. People merrily posted bogus press releases and waited for the RIAA's reaction.

Hours later, they were still waiting. The hole stayed open for seven hours.

"Hey, don't you think they should have noticed that press release urging people to have sex with barnyard animals by now?" one chat participant asked, several hours after the bogus press releases first hit the RIAA site.

LMAO! RIAA can burn in hell!

 

[no0b]

Maybe because then they can claim that those who download music are also the evil 1337 haxorz fuxoring everything up.