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Can Honeypot save the Nasty Cyber Attacks?

In a recent nasty cyber attack by some mean hackers who flooded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures and links with rapid flashing images. I would say it is like giving 'Electric shocks' to the priveledged people. Cyber attack leading to severe migraine and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed those images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get as near as seizure reactions, when they are exposed to flickering images, a response could be caused by video games and cartoons too. 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. 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 offi...

Vikas Sharma

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