April 27, 2020

SOHH

By Checker Bot

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about SOHH!

Hip Hop Sites Attacked by Hate Groups: Last week, two popular hip hop websites were hacked by apparent hate groups. When people visited SOHH.com and AllHipHop.com, they saw the regular content replaced with racist images and racial slurs. Farai Chideya gets the latest on the cyberattacks.

Hip-Hop Sites Hacked By Apparent Hate Group; SOHH, AllHipHop Temporarily Suspend Access: Sites are working to resolve situation.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel founded the website in 1996 . in 2000, Rolling Stone magazine writer mark binelli called it the “best overall hip-hop site” after graduating, she worked for a small licensing firm founded by her husband, Steven Samuel, was part of the rap group, the Troubleneck Brothers . after leaving the group, Samuel worked as a postal foot messenger in new york . Palmer and Samuel officially launched the website in 1996 . the website is the longest running online hip hop community . SOHH began as a magazine, but was changed to a website due to high printing costs . the attack took place in stages, the message board section was infilt hackers used cross-site scripting to deface website’s main page . satirical images and headlines reference numerous racial stereotypes and slurs . hackers also successfully stole information from SOHH employees SOHH co-founder: each time the website was attacked, data on the suspects was retrieved . she says some of the attackers were “located within the united states, between the ages of 16-21” a