AO Protection

I was wondering what services and protections AO is running? nothing specific obviously. but i only ask because to me, AO would be an (for lack of a better word) ideal site to try and hack/crack. basically because of the nature of AO and what goes on.

So, i was wondering if there is anything AO runs that isnt typical and what attemps if any, have been made at the AO servers.

i guess im askin the mods to show their battle scars :p

CTO

*Please note that because of the nature and proceedings of AO, it also makes it the most non-idealistic place to attempt anything* (but i still wanted to know :p)

When JP owned the site he claimed something like over 9 million crack attempts .. it also got defaced once.. and so did anticode etc ...... there is a link to it somewhere i will find it and then edit this post to post the link .. as for what they are running .. i am unsure


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http://www.spikeman.net/anticode/

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Yeah, AO had millions of hack attempts, and was defaced twice. Once in the AntiCode section and once in the main page. It was a big event because AO was one of the prime targets for kiddies back in the day... now nobody really cares.

it was defaced 3 times according to that link i posted :)

heh, thanks, forgot about r00tworm's hack on anticode.

well this post is a bit out of place but does anybody have any idea on the crack attempts on yahoo and hotmail ???
by the way i had no idea that AO was such a lucrative place for hackers/script kiddes!

I dont think many people would bother with antionline now days but it used to be a haven for skript kiddies to try their scripts ... yeh yahoo has been defaced to i think it was by h4g1s it was a long time ago .. if you plow through the old defacement mirror on attrition.org you will find it .. you could even do a search on google for h4g1s and it might show it or "h4g1s yahoo" ... something along those lines

hey thanks guys :) nice link fyrewall.

Yea, i thought AO would be prime for attacks, and yet at the same time thought it wouldnt. but i guess it depended on the time. i suppose when AO was first around, people wanted to have a go. now its a well known site that alot of people enjoy being members of. perhaps thats why noone else attempts ??

I think more to the point .. AO has left the underground scene that it was once a member of. Also JP wasnt very well liked and he no longer owns the site so it has become just another site with a forum. :)

very well liked by people in the underground scene? packetstormsecurity, rfp, attrition, ADM, members of w00w00, antioffline etc etc all diskliked him and the site .... and voiced their opinions

not that anyone cares :)

sure the media and news sites seemed to like him and AO :)

anyway we dont need another thread dribbling this **** too .. there are plenty like this one ....

thats right it is old like 99 - 2000 like you said ... as i said noone cares anymore

IMHO, most of the attacks weren't aimed at AO, but at JP. AO was just the most public way to attack him.


JP has made some enemies. I mean, look at what Brian Martin's attrition gang has to say about him. They were religious about pointing out every mistake, half-truth, and whatever else he did.


I'm not accusing him of anything, hell, I like him, but he set himself up as a target the moment he became the "hacker tracker."

Considering it's a known fact that if you go against a select group of people with the thought process they possess WILL set yourself up to be targeted by them. JP has had many allegation's (AFAIK) thrown his way and although I won't comment on whether I think they are true or not because JP know's in his heart whether or not it's true, there always could be truth to some rumors (or even a half-truth to them).

By the way, how are you doing D0pp? :D

I wasnt around for this part but acording to the book "Steal This Computer:Book 2" (the book that lead me to AO) the site acutaly used to have live statistics of hack attemps.

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One of thee more controversial hacker Web sites is AntiOnline, which not only provides hacker news,virus source code,and trojan horse programs, but also maintains a comprehensive profile of hackers for use by law enforcement. Naturaly Antionlines cooperation with the police has upset many hackers, many of whom retaliate by breaking into Antionlines computers ona regualr basis. In fact attempts to hack into antionline are so common that antionline now posts the latest hacker attacks,attempted hack method and hackers IP.

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pretty much word for word from Steal this computer book 2 by wallace wang, no starch press.