Hackers assault people with epilepsy online
May 8th, 2008From the Associated Press on Foxnews.com:
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.
… “They were out to create seizures,” said Ken Lowenberg, senior director of Web and print publishing for the foundation.
WIRED.com called it “possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims.”
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