Happy April Fool's guys! Judging by your response, my girlfriend did a good job pwnzz0ring HoZ, since many of you thought it was real.

For those who missed it, here's a mirror of the defaced index page: http://hack.org.za/index_hacked.html

Dankie and have pwntiful April!

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Hey guys, you may have noticed a new title above your avatar! This is because the HoZ staff have decided to test the rank system for a short time and collect feedback!

At the moment there are only 10 or so ranks, based on your post count, and they are things like:
"HoZ Newbie" (up to 4 posts.)
"Will I break 10 posts?" (up to 9 posts)
"HoZ Member"
"Sensei" (over 500 posts)
etc

We're looking for feedback on this and if you have suggestions for rank titles we would like to incorporate them into the system! So suggest away! Also say what post count it should be effective at, eg.
"SUPREME ELITE HAXXOR" for 200 to 250 posts.
or
"Epic Win" for 1337 posts.

If you do or don't like this system, don't be afraid to voice your opinion! Whether this is implemented permanently is up to you!

A video of a disappearing man right here in South Africa. How deep does this rabbit hole go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03vUpz_Olhw

Can anybody identify that campus?

warbird sends his greets ;)

What did you do for April Fools? Anything? I went to uni and got out my trusty custom Linux live CD then proceeded to arp-poison my whole floor and redirect 90% noneducational sites to wikipedia and the rest to kittenwar =) Most people didn't know wtf was going on, and the rest just got annoyed (except one or two who found it funny).

I also used some WMI scripts I've been working on to take control of peoples computers and make them... say things. My co-conspirator who was just tagging along for the lols ended up giving us away (by lolling), twice. The second time the people we were pranking thought it was pretty cool and they actually congratulated me, so I showed them how it was done.

Last year I did a similar thing with arp poisoning, but instead implemented my own version of the upsidedownternet (all websites have their images flipped upside down by a perl script redirector for squid running transparently). That was pretty fun, and it got much better reactions :)

If anyone wants the scripts I made for these pranks I can upload them :).

And finally, HoZ didn't really get pwned by warbird. Your passwords are safe. For now.

Any bets on how it was done? Simple SQL injection maybe?

Anyway, the guy just uploaded c99 and posted a fake entry about Malema
resigning. Pretty funny.

Here's a screenshot of C99 uploaded on the ancyl website:

http://i.imgur.com/swc3S.png

And here's a screenshot of the hacked site and fake article before it was fixed:

http://i.imgur.com/huEtO.jpg

One of our ever vigilant members found this in the source of the hacked site:


Edited by chown: removed the image bbcode as it's screwing with the layout.

For those of you in the Joburg area there's a monthly hacker meet just around the corner! Here's the details: