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Cyberwar: The beginning
Written by Marcelo Almeida (Vympel)
Friday, 28 July 2006
Original
The war in Lebanon is now showing its consequences
in the digital world and a huge number of websites has been attacked and defaced
as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by
Israel.
Today
two NASA websites were attacked as well. The intrusion was carried out by the
Chilean group of crackers known as Byond Hackers Crew through
a leak in the SQL Injection they entered the system and subtracted user names,
passwords and e-mails from the NASA web server.
After
that these information had been stolen, they managed in entering the
administrative area by using an administrator user ID and password , and finally
they made the defacement replacing the homepage with their
message…
This
group goes with the others that in last days carried out attacks
against governmental and commercial websites both from America and Israel,
whereas other blackhat groups attacked Israeli websites provoking a denial of
service (DDoS) of that particular webpage.
The messages conveyed by all these defacements focus on
the idea that, according to the attackers, the search of terrorist
is just a pretext for the war on the south of Lebanon, that actually
killed a lot of innocent people .
The
list of the websites that have been defaced this week follows,
including NASA , Berkeley University, Microsoft and U.S Government web
pages.
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