hacking

The “Antisec” movement of hackers have taken down some big-time websites recently. The Arizona Department of Public Safety, the government of Brazil, and british newspapers The Sun and The Times where they posted a fake story about fellow-hacking lover and news mogul Rupert Murdoch. Last weekend though, they took down the Missouri Sheriffs Association. Not quite as glamourous as The Sun, but still pretty damaging. Not only is the Sheriffs Association’s site (mosheriffs. [Read More]

It was just Friday when we told you about the new website for local concert venue The Old Rock House (www.oldrockhouse.com, but I’d avoid clicking on that if you’re still rocking Internet Explorer.) and how it was really creepy and we didn’t get the whole “duct-taped girl” motif they were going for…oh that’s right they were hacked! Later that night it was fixed though, the creepy taped girl was expunged and the Old Rock House’s website full of photos from concerts by people we’ve never heard of was restored. [Read More]

Update: The site has now been restored! Take that Hacker Group Yemen! Original story follows… St. Louis concert venue The Old Rock House launched their new website today (www.oldrockhouse.com) with a certain amount of fanfare and…well…it’s an interesting take. Anyone else see the link to their concert schedule? Maybe it’s behind the creepy girl face with her mouth taped shut? Apparently the new site, within hours of launching, got hacked and hacked good especially since at the time of this writing it was still this way and phone calls to the venue returned an eta of “Um…I’m not sure…” followed by direction to go to their Facebook page that appeared to be wildly out of date. [Read More]

No not really, but when you do something stupid and you can’t tell your computer from your microwave, you just say a “hacker” did it and then you are cleared of all stupid deeds. Here’s a quick synopsis of our absolute favorite KSDK reporter’s twitter page: About an hour later, Zigman figures it out… Ah. That solves. it. Here’s what really happened: There has been a link floating around that if you click on it, and happen to be signed in to Twitter, it will submit a private message to everyone on your list. [Read More]