An archive of various times the attrition.org main page was changed.
If you are going to be defaced, just hope it is by someone with a good sense of
humor and creativity. Kudos to Fluffy Bunny.
After a hardware failure, the system was down for several days. During this time, rumors began
to run rampant and speculation as to the downtime got outlandish. To welcome the box back to the internet,
we created this hoax. Highlight the hidden text at the bottom for more details.
The New York Department of Cyber-Security released a bulletin warning everyone of
a "hacker defacement challenge" which promised to see thousands and millions of
web defacements that may be the end of the net as we know it, oh gnoez! Ok not really,
and several sites including attrition.org created this defacement to bring some sanity
to the FUD filled advisory.
Again, least we got hit by folks with talent =)
Aleksander Gostev of Kaspersky warned that terrorists were going to destroy
the internet and that cyber-terrorism would rear its ugly head and shower us
with outages and bad things! Some went so far to call it an "Electronic Jihad".
We thought differently, and like before, attrition.org and half a dozen other sites
defaced our own pages to get the message out.
A standard April Fools joke poking fun of ISC2 and the CISSP certification. This was posted
on half a dozen sites including vmyths.com,
who also hosted the cissp.txt file originally. This
drew a legal threat from ISC2 who demonstrated that their lawyers don't know how e-mail works,
saying the list (which contains no email addresses) was criminal and that we 'harvested the
list from their site to send spam' in so many words. Retards.
