Net Vikings pillage Hamleys website
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Voucher scheme error provokes festive carnage UK toy retailer Hamleys website was ransacked over the weekend after sharp-eyed web shoppers spotted "a glitch in a voucher scheme which allowed customers to claim a cumulative 60 per cent discount if they bought goods from the Hamleys online store", and moved in for the kill.â¦
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Spam wars Spamhaus, the leading anti-spam organisation, has restored its site and services to normal after a distributed denial of service attack rendered its site temporarily inaccessible for several hours on Monday.â¦
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Pulling the plug Cut-rate internet host UK2.net has become the subject of a hacking attack, leaving customers temporarily unable to access their email.â¦
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The game's over and patches are available, but many sites are infected with malicious code.
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The virtual headquarters of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has been defaced by a "feces spewing obscenity" created by Second Life political rivals. Welcome to the internet, John. At Table of Malcontents.
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It seems that Harry Fuecks has had a bit of an issue with the naming of his latest script - ScriptServer:
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A friend of Rufus writes FoTW It appears that the now-legendary Rufus - he of Gadspot.com's battling tech support who called one customer a "a pain in the butt" then reserved the right to "server" him "for being mean" - has has become a torchbearer for obstreperous dictionary-dodgers worldwide.â¦
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Three web sites linked to terrorism network al-Qaeda have been found on Swedish Internet servers, and one of them was shut down by a Swedish Internet provider, Radio Sweden reported on Wednesday.
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A malicious Trojan disguised as a Microsoft update is being served up from a MySpace page for which the name and password appear to have been phished. The problem highlights the trouble to which criminal abuse of MySpace can lead.
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Several London-based servers of an alternative media network have been seized by the FBI in an operation, rumoured to be related to recent requests to remove photos posted on a web site.
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SCO, the ever-popular Unix company, has come under attack from hackers once again. This time they have replaced the front page of SCO&#39;s Web site with their own version that parodies SCO&#39;s legal battles over Linux.
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Apache and the Domino Effect Poor configuration of Apache servers allowed multiple websites hosted on the same physical server to become infected in last month's Mpack compromise.â¦
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A page on Microsoft's U.K. Web site was defaced by a hacker who used a SQL injection attack to exploit a programming error and gain access to a database that supports the site.
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TechWeb - Web sites for Indymedia, a Texas company, were knocked offline when the servers housing them were seized in Britain. Indymedia and civil libertarians are charging censorship.
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Legendary snafu Customers of Legend Communications have scuppered been by a series of mishaps at the hosting, VoIP and broadband provider this week.â¦
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It's a Swedish smackdown: To protest Perspektiv Broadband's AllOfMP3 morality play, the Pirate Bay bans the ISP's users. In Monkey Bites.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A popular community Web site that was recently mimicked by a copycat appears to have shut down the imitator, its owner said Tuesday.