School website in porn shocker
By Xu Chi |
January 8, 2011, Saturday
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WHEN some students in Anhui Province clicked on their school's website link on Baidu.com earlier this week, up popped pornographic pictures of naked girls.
The link was fixed yesterday morning with the help of Anhui's Internet police but not before the students and their parents had been shocked to see pornographic pictures and invitations to download videos, when they clicked on the website.
Authorities at the No.1 High School in Feidong County told Shanghai Daily that they had reported the incident to the province's police and government for further investigation as they feared the site might be attacked again.
The authorities said they at first thought the hacking might have had something to do with Baidu or its business partners.
The problem link (www.fdyz.net) appeared on the top of Baidu's search results after typing the school's name, but the same link seemed to be fine on other search engines, such as Google and Sougou.
The school's network management director, surnamed Zhu, said the school recently rejected an offer from a company claiming to be Baidu's partner, trying to sell them what it said were Baidu's promotional advertising services. It was just a few days later that the link was hacked.
The services were said to ensure that customers' links appeared high up on the list of search results.
"A middle-aged man tried persuading us to purchase the service that guarantees the top position of the link," said Zhu, "The service costs 1,200 yuan for one year but we rejected the offer because the school doesn't need the advertising service."
When Shanghai Daily contacted the company - Wangxin Technology Company - an official surnamed Peng said it was not involved in the incident in any way. "Probably some criminals were using our company's name to cheat money out of the school," Peng said
He also added that the service Zhu described wasn't even offered by the company.
A Baidu customer service official also said it had nothing to do with the incident. It believed the school's system had been hijacked by foreign hackers, as they had found that the server of the attacker was located abroad.
This was not the first time the school's link had been hijacked, Zhu said. The first attack was on November 7 when some teachers clicked the school's link on Baidu to find they were directed to e-commerce site Taobao.com.
Later, the school's website was turned into an advertising website, with small windows popping up. Clicking on them downloaded computer viruses.
School authorities said they hadn't ruled out the possibility that some "smart" students were behind the incidents.
The link was fixed yesterday morning with the help of Anhui's Internet police but not before the students and their parents had been shocked to see pornographic pictures and invitations to download videos, when they clicked on the website.
Authorities at the No.1 High School in Feidong County told Shanghai Daily that they had reported the incident to the province's police and government for further investigation as they feared the site might be attacked again.
The authorities said they at first thought the hacking might have had something to do with Baidu or its business partners.
The problem link (www.fdyz.net) appeared on the top of Baidu's search results after typing the school's name, but the same link seemed to be fine on other search engines, such as Google and Sougou.
The school's network management director, surnamed Zhu, said the school recently rejected an offer from a company claiming to be Baidu's partner, trying to sell them what it said were Baidu's promotional advertising services. It was just a few days later that the link was hacked.
The services were said to ensure that customers' links appeared high up on the list of search results.
"A middle-aged man tried persuading us to purchase the service that guarantees the top position of the link," said Zhu, "The service costs 1,200 yuan for one year but we rejected the offer because the school doesn't need the advertising service."
When Shanghai Daily contacted the company - Wangxin Technology Company - an official surnamed Peng said it was not involved in the incident in any way. "Probably some criminals were using our company's name to cheat money out of the school," Peng said
He also added that the service Zhu described wasn't even offered by the company.
A Baidu customer service official also said it had nothing to do with the incident. It believed the school's system had been hijacked by foreign hackers, as they had found that the server of the attacker was located abroad.
This was not the first time the school's link had been hijacked, Zhu said. The first attack was on November 7 when some teachers clicked the school's link on Baidu to find they were directed to e-commerce site Taobao.com.
Later, the school's website was turned into an advertising website, with small windows popping up. Clicking on them downloaded computer viruses.
School authorities said they hadn't ruled out the possibility that some "smart" students were behind the incidents.
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