Hackers of the World <b>UNITE!</b>

UPDATED
Feds warn of mass hacker attacks

Attack on thousands of Web sites said planned for Sunday

     "The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it was aware of the hackers? plans but did not expect to issue any formal public warnings. The Chief Information Officers Council, part of the Office of Management and Budget, cautioned U.S. agencies and instructed experts to tighten security at federal Web sites."

We emphasize that all Web site administrators should ensure that their sites are not vulnerable, wrote Peter Allor of Internet Security Systems Inc., the Atlanta-based company that runs the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

The purported prize for participating hackers was 500-megabytes of online storage space, which made little sense to computer experts. They said hackers capable of breaking into thousands of computers could easily steal that amount of storage on corporate networks.

Will our own little slice of the net be touched by this dastardly plan?


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AfterMath

The Web?s largest Web sites, including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com, were functioning as normal on Sunday. ?None of our customers have called to report any problems. It?s all quiet on the Western Front,? said Joanne Hughes, a spokeswoman for Via Networks. But Via.Network?s Hughes saw something of a silver lining in the fact she and her team were on the ready this weekend for a possible showdown with hackers. ?If it makes people more aware about security then that?s a good thing,? she said.