(#4) Operation Cupcake Changed Bomb Instructions To Cake Recipes
Security services do an important job of taking down propaganda and information from terrorist websites. MI6 from the UK achieved this in a rather unique way back in in 2011. Rather than just take down the instructions for making pipe bombs from an online al-Qaeda magazine, they simply replaced the instructions with recipes for cake. Anyone looking to create explosives would instead only get the recipes for cupcakes taken directly from Ellen DeGeneres's "Best Cupcakes in America."
(#6) Hackers Ruined Scientology’s Google Results
When the Church of Scientology tried to take down a video critical of Tom Cruise on YouTube in early 2008, a group of hackers gave a rather mathematical rebuttal. These anonymous attackers caused no harm to the church when they Google bombed it. By shifting the church's Google rankings, the hackers made it so that when a user searched "dangerous cults," the first result to come up happened to be the Church of Scientology's website.
(#2) The Vogue Website Was Filled With Accessorized Dinosaurs
One hack discovered in 2013 on the Vogue website, as well as others owned by Conde Nast, involved dinosaurs. Inputting the famous Konami code on the keyboard while browsing the site led to dinosaurs appearing across the screen wearing various types of hats and headwear.
To this day, no one quite knows who carried out the attack. Some suspect an employee for the company, as this would have made it much easier to hide as an Easter egg of sorts rather than a genuine attack.
(#10) Hackers Plastered Bored Teenagers Over Lenovo’s Website
When news got out in 2015 that Lenovo laptops came with Superfish malware pre-installed, certain groups decided to take revenge. Using a popular hacking technique known as DNS hijacking, Lizard Squad managed to re-direct visitors to the Lenovo website to one the hackers controlled. The group plastered the secondary website with pictures of seemingly bored teenagers, which feels extra savage on the part of Lizard Squad. Songs from High School Musical also played in the background, y'know, just because.
(#14) The World's First Technological Hack: The Marconi Telegraph Troll
In 1903, the "father of modern radio," Guglielmo Marconi, was stationed on a cliff ready to demonstrate his new-fangled telegraph to the Royal Academy of Sciences. As he braced his fingers, ready to send a message more than 300 miles across the airwaves, the machine at the receiving end of the communication began pulsing strongly. The decoder spelled out the pulses into "RATS" several times before the messages launched into a seemingly random limerick. "There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily," it pronounced rudely, before launching into other miscellaneous quotations. It turned out a wireless engineer named Nevil Maskelyn from the Eastern Telegraph Company had set out to prove a point: that these telegraph messages weren't private. Indeed, they weren't.
(#13) The Burger King Twitter Account Got A McDonald's Burn
If a hacker takes control of a major fast-food restaurant's social media account, the obvious next step involves changing their name and photo to that of their biggest rival. This exact scenario happened to Burger King in February 2013, when an unknown attacker accessed the Twitter account for the chain. Rather than do anything malicious with this information, they decided to troll the account instead. This resulted in several messages claiming the company had been sold to McDonald’s, and a change of name and picture to match the legendary golden arches.
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Perhaps most people think that hackers are the kind of unshaven, bearded, serious, and meticulous people who sit in front of the computer. However, in history, the reasons and methods of some hacker attacks have made people laugh. For example, a group of Tunisian hackers and terrorists claimed to bring down the Western world and then launched attacks on British companies. But they were discovered that the attack was on the schedule information website of a bus company.
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