Guys over at the F-Secure Blog reported that the Malaysian F1 Sepang Circuit website was defaced by a hacker by the nickname CuciOtak(Brain Wash in English) just hours before the F1 race event started on March 21, 2008.
Seen above was what it look like a detergent box having a similar design to Tide’s packaging for detergents and bearing a message “Removes even the toughest propaganda”. We do not know as of now what propaganda is CuciOtak trying to relay to us. For your information, there was no malicious activity going on but just a prank made by CuciOtak. The website is back to normal. Today is Day 2 of the race. Are you catching on the F1 fever? =)
For further information about the story behind it, please visit F-Secure Blog on Formula F1 racing and computer security.
At the point in my web career, I have actually lost respect for hackers. Twenty years ago, they were indeed heros, like taking on the wild west, but now since the web is mainstream, real hackers are not funny anymore…they are like a splinter in one’s finger! For the web to make it without falling into corporate control, collaboration must take place, and hackers MUST collaborate too. Such ashame when hackers shut down and important service or get everyone nervous with a virus or worm, etc. Thanks for the informative article, kudos! Regards, Keith Johnson, Webmaster “www.ommeditation.info”.
If the writer would learn to spell, he might have some credibility.
Hackers demonstrate that the human tendency is to try to get away with criminal activity as much as they can. If they imagine they are invisible, all the better for them , or so they imagine!
Their time will come. That which is hidden, shall be revealed.They need
to be put to work in service of computer technology, not in a covert status sabotaging our data. Programmers should be at work to find these people and give them a taste of their own medicine. This should have been envisioned when computers were being designed. retrofitting as
we do is not as good as designing computers to be invulnerable to all this stupid hacking.