Here's a caustic one by fuxOr on a China site...

Another Chinese Site Bites the Dust

I like his commentary...

Here's a cool place to monitor the latest hacks that are bragged about... note those ending in cn are Chinese....

Enjoy the Cyber Mayhem

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Answers

An interesting quote from the above hack, before it's cleaned up...

"side notes: to the chinese hax0rizers. ok fella's it's like this... sure, your angry cuz you lost some pilot of yours. i could understand that, but understand our position... we're pissed off cuz your dumbass "pilot" was a moron and crashed into one of ours. i mean c'mon now guys, he was in a supposedly highly maneuverable and agile "fighter" jet. our boys where in a fuckin flying dildo with propeller engines. not agile at all. who's fault you think this really was? think about that one for a second. then you can either choose to be blinded by your pathetically justified patriotism for you ignorant pilot who basically killed himself, ooooor, you can, oh i dont know, maybe come up with a fucking individual thought of your own and quit allowing that damn communist crap to take the better of you... and by the way, you can lick deez nuts..."

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Thanks for pasting that--the site has been cleaned up.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

The safemode site makes a mirror copy of the hacked site, so you can see what it looked like before someone caught on and cleaned it up... just click on "mirror" to see the hack...

There was one I saw, a jab at the practice of eating dogs, showing a Chinese girl encouraging her "lap dog".... some of the hacks get a bit crude :)

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Monday, 30 April 2001, 21:54 GMT 22:54 UK

US under Chinese hack attack

Computer enthusiasts plan a week-long campaign

By the BBC's Mark Gregory

Hackers based in China have begun a co-ordinated offensive against computer networks in the United States.

The hacker attacks are intended as retaliation for the death of a Chinese pilot in the recent incident involving an American spyplane.

It is unclear exactly who is behind the hacker attacks or how much of a threat they pose to computer networks run by big US companies and government agencies.

The FBI has issued a warning to network operators telling them to expect disruption.

Media reports say sites run by the US labour and health departments have already been broken into and altered.

It is reported that in each case tributes to Chinese pilot killed in the spy plane collision have appeared.

Tension

That incident greatly increased political tensions between the US and China, but there is no evidence linking the government in Beijing to the hacker offensive.

A report in a Chinese newspaper claims that a week-long campaign is planned by a group of Chinese computer enthusiasts, known as the Honkers Union of China, starting from Monday.

The newspaper report says the group is led by a leader known as "lion". It was set up within the last two years.

Meanwhile, newsgency reports suggest that another shadowy hackers' group called the Chinese Red Guest Network Security Technology Alliance is also involved.

Their methods are likely to include attempts to overload US computer systems with meaningless data, tampering with websites and e-mailing computer viruses to American government employees.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Gee, if the Chinese decide they want to pit their hackers against ours, it should be quite a showdown. Bet we can do them a lot more damage than they can do us. All it will take is for the word to get around that there's a hacking contest going on against China.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Ah do b'lieve it's already done got.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

My lord.. our boys are having a field day with China...

Was watching the news tonight, could you believe they are saying our hackers started it?????

My fav so far is fux0r...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Couple of my favorite quotes so far from fux0r...

"from the folks who brought you the Levi's you're about to shit in..."

"can't we all get a bong?"

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Almost forgot...

we have come to woop-ass and chew bubble gum...
and we just ran out of bubble gum...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Monday April 30 11:23 PM ET

U.S. Plays Down Reports of Chinese Hacking

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. computer security experts on Monday played down the significance of a spate of Web vandalism expressing pro-Chinese and anti-U.S. sentiments.

Rob Clyde, chief technologist of Symantec Corp., an Internet security company, estimated that only about a dozen-half high-profile U.S. Web sites had been defaced by apparent Chinese hackers.

These sites included ones at the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (news - web sites), the United Press International news agency, a White House historical association and the U.S. House of Representatives.

But, Clyde added, ``it's not May 1 yet.'' May 1 is International Workers' Day, and China marks Youth Day on May 4. May 7 is the second anniversary of the bombing by a U.S. warplane of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, which NATO (news - web sites) called a mistake but which many Chinese said was intentional.

The FBI (news - web sites)-led National Infrastructure Protection Center last week warned systems administrators that hackers purportedly from China might stage a weeklong blitz on U.S. Web sites in a coordinated political protest starting Monday.

``Chinese hackers have publicly discussed increasing their activity'' from Monday through May 7, the interagency task force said.

But David Jarrell, director of the Federal Computer Incident Response Center, the U.S. government's focal point for civilian computer security, said, ``Every day of the week, we see Web site defacements targeting government and military sites.''

``Today is only slightly above average,'' Jarrell said, declining to describe any attacks on the grounds that such detail might attract copycats to U.S. agency sites still recovering from so-called malicious code.

The NIPC advisory did not suggest that the feared blitz was endorsed by Chinese authorities. Anti-virus software companies have urged users to update programs to protect their computers.

On Monday, Debbie Weireman, an FBI spokeswoman, declined to comment on whether the infrastructure protection center had detected any unusual activity.

Jeffrey Carpenter, manager of the CERT Coordination Center (news - web sites), a federally funded computer emergency response team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said hacker activity on Monday ''looked like just about every other normal day.''

Late in the day, however, Carpenter said there had been an increase in reports of ``probing and scanning'' by would-be intruders seeking to find security cracks in systems that could be compromised.

An average of 100 sites a day report some form of attack to the CERT monitoring center, ranging from Web page defacements to takeover by an intruder, Carpenter said in a telephone interview.

He cautioned against attributing any specific incident to hackers from one particular country. Malicious activity was frequently routed through a chain of computers, he said.

``It's extremely difficult to determine the true origin'' of a hack attack, Carpenter said, including ones that bear addresses of computers in China, since these could have been victimized themselves.

``The reverse is also true,'' he added, referring to attacks that might appear to originate in the United States but, in fact, were orchestrated from abroad.

Getting to the truth typically requires law enforcement powers, Carpenter said.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

FOX It's an All-Out Cyber War as U.S. Hackers Fight Back at China

Chinese and American computer hackers were engaged in an all-out cyber war Tuesday, with U.S. hackers launching a counter-attack to Monday's massive Chinese defacement of U.S. Web sites.

Calling their effort "Project China: Asia Domination," U.S. hackers have been organizing to deface Chinese Web sites, according to the Internet security firm Vigilinx, which has been closely monitoring the activity.

Right now, the Chinese hackers appear to be winning the war, having defaced 76 American Web sites late Tuesday morning to the American hackers, who have hit 63 Chinese sites, Vigilinx said.

But the tables could soon change. Jerry Freese, director of intelligence at Vigilinx, said the American hackers have mostly been individuals going up against a highly organized Chinese hacking initiative. But now, the U.S. hackers are officially organizing.

In a mostly obscene message directed at the Chinese hackers, a Web site defaced by American hackers reads in part, "Get ready to meet a strike force with strength the world has never seen before! We are going for all out cyber warfare on your .gov.cn boxes and every other box that you ... haven't secured! Hold onto your boots because many will fall to the wrath of the blood bath!"

Freese said Vigilinx had not verified that the message represented a hacking coalition, but he said the information his firm was compiling indicated the American hackers were organizing.

The Chinese-American hacker war picked up Monday when Chinese computer hackers launched a massive attack against U.S. Web sites, including those of United Press International, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Navy's communication center.

The attacks were aimed at the U.S. in retaliation for the April 1 collision between a U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet, which the Chinese say was caused by the Americans.

By Tuesday, American hackers were targeting Chinese government sites, as well as the Web sites for a Chinese university and what appeared to be a non-profit organization. While both sides appear to be targeting sites randomly, Reese said the hackers were choosing sites based not on content or ownership as much as their ability to breach the technology.

So far, neither side has inflicted much damage, opting to "deface" the Web pages of sites rather than attack the servers or launch viruses or malicious code. For example, on the UPI's site, Chinese hackers replaced the site's home page with the image of a waving Chinese national flag and anti-American slogans scrawled in a mix of Chinese characters and English letters.

The copy that appeared in English read, "The Great Chinese Nation Hooray! USA Will Be With Responsibility for the Accident Totally!!! Protest USA sell Weapon to Taiwan, Break The World Peace!!! USA IS BITCH! I am from China---Peak."

Peak is the Internet name of one of the hackers.

"This becomes a game," said Mike Assante, vice president of intelligence at Vigilinx, pointing out that confirming the origin of the hacking conclusively would require forensic analysis of the sites. In most cases, he said, system administrators can easily repair the damage.

A more ominous element of the attacks is that hacking is a capital offense in China. Two hackers who broke into a Chinese bank computer network and stole $31,400 were sentenced to death in 1998. While security experts don't think the Chinese government is sponsoring the attacks, they believe Beijing would have to be condoning an effort this large and organized.

Meanwhile, hacker-tracking groups, such as Attrition.org, claim the hacking has been going on for some time, with individual attacks pre-dating the surveillance plane collision, and did not take on political overtones until the media picked up the story.

A group known as the "Honkers" Union of China claimed responsibility for some of the attacks Monday, displaying their name on the home page of the sites they infiltrated below several lines of anti-American slogans. The group replaced the home page of each site with one reading "The People's Republic of China is Everlasting. Down With USA. Down With Yankees."

On the Web site 777.wireless.com, the group posted pictures of the Chinese military and a tribute to Wang Wei, the Chinese pilot who died in the collision with the American surveillance plane.

Among other U.S. sites defaced by the Chinese hackers Monday were the site for the California Energy Department, the site for a European scuba diving outfit, a California manufacturing firm and a non-profit organization that assists small business owners, as well as a long list of sites for American businesses and organizations.

A partial list of hacked U.S. government sites includes those of the Navy communication station in Washington; the U.S. Mineral Resource Administrative Bureau; the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Health.

Don Eskes, president of Filter Corp., a manufacturing company in Fresno, Calif., told Fox News that he learned his site had been hacked just after opening up Monday from one of the company's East Coast dealers. The site, which Eskes said was maintained by an independent web provider, had been repaired by 11:45 a.m. EST.

Jeff Higginbotham, network administrator for the Central Valley Business Incubator in Clovis, Calif., said his site was hacked through an attack on the outside web hosting company that maintained the advertising and promotion portion of the site. The web-based services the organization provides for its clients are hosted internally and were not affected, he said.

"It's really just a minor inconvenience," Higginbotham told Fox News. The hacked portion of the site was still displaying the Chinese pages at noon, EDT.

The "Red Guest Alliance News" said the cyber-assault would commence at 9 a.m. EDT on April 30 and was planned to continue through the May Day holidays of May 1-7. The organization allegedly mobilized its force by calling a cyberspace rally around 7 a.m. EDT.

The official Xinhua News Agency has made no public comments on the so-called "hacker war," but Chinese chat rooms and unofficial media outlets were buzzing with reports of the planned attack.

While China's official press has not commented on the attack, Chinese cyber-surfers reportedly overwhelmingly support the "51 Hacker War." According to the results of a poll reported by China.com, nearly 85 percent of 2089 respondents firmly support the Chinese "Red Guest" action.

Last week, the National Infrastructure Protection Center issued a warning that Chinese hackers may coordinate an attack against U.S. web sites with May Day festivities Tuesday.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Yep, US hackers are starting to get organized now... it's been just a couple doing the bulk of the China hacks, but they're starting to rally their buddies from the sound of it...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001