It's from the AP it has to be true

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I recieved this in my email kids can be so cruel some times

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Hackers try to cause seizures on epilepsy site
Web forum bombarded with links to pages with rapidly flashing images
By Jordan Robertson



updated 7:48 p.m. ET, Wed., May. 7, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO - Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims.

But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.

The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get seizures when they're exposed to flickering images, a response also caused by some video games and cartoons.

The attack happened when hackers exploited a security hole in the foundation's publishing software that allowed them to quickly make numerous posts and overwhelm the site's support forums.

Within the hackers' posts were small flashing pictures and links — masquerading as helpful — to pages that exploded with kaleidoscopic images pulsating with different colors.

"They were out to create seizures," said Ken Lowenberg, senior director of Web and print publishing for the foundation.

He said legitimate users are no longer able to post animated images to the support forum or create direct links to other sites, and it is now moderated around the clock. He said the FBI is investigating the breach.

Security experts said the attack highlights the dangers of Web sites giving visitors great freedom to post content to different parts of the site.

In another recent attack, hackers exploited a simple coding vulnerability in Sen. Barack Obama's Web site to redirect users visiting the community blogs section to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's official campaign site.

The hackers who infiltrated the Epilepsy Foundation's site didn't appear to care about profit. The harmful pages didn't appear to try to push down code that would allow the hacker to gain control of the victims' computers, for instance.

"I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline — they don't realize how cruel it is," said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc. "It was an opportunity waiting to happen for some mean-spirited kid."

In a similar attack this year, a piece of malicious code was released that disabled software that reads text aloud from a computer screen for blind and visually impaired people. That attack appeared to have been designed to cripple the computers of people using illegal copies of the software, researchers said.

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[BillyVance 35]

Yeah, I saw that... fucking wacked out idiots.

I remember Japan had a cartoon show that had a lot of vivid, rapidly flashing colors and kids got sick from just watching it, so it got yanked off the air. This was several years ago.

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[DougH 270]

I bet it was pokemon with that little electric rat.

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[BillyVance 35]

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I bet it was pokemon with that little electric rat.

Yeah I think you're right. Fucked up shit is all I can say.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[skydemon2 0]

Dude, did anyone see that vibrating advertisement on yahoo news the other day? It was so frickin annoying I had to stop reading the news story and close the page.... Seriously who thinks up that crap, all it did was make me decide to not be on their page.

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