Forwarded From: Simon Taplin <stickerat_private> Feds Fend Off HACK3RZ You might want to resend any e-mails you fired off to the FBI or the U.S. Senate yesterday. Hackers shut down both Web sites in a two-for-one attack that online media outlets dug right into. News.com reported that the attackers' intent was to crash the FBI site, not intrude into its files. Are the perps international spies? Perhaps double agents? International anarchists? Most likely they're adolescents not old enough to drive, Alan Paller, director of research for the SANS (System Administration, Networking and Security) Institute told News.com's Paul Festa. ZDNet scored with colorful details that indicate Paller might be right. It ran with the story and reported that the Senate Web site, too, had been downed Thursday evening. But the level of threat appears more comic book than spy thriller, according to ZDNN reporter Joel Deane. Fbi.gov had been hacked by a group called Global Hell, and the nefarious culprits behind the Senate attack call themselves MAST3RZ 0F D0WNL0ADING, or M0D to their friends. Turns out M0D taunted the feds with the message they left plastered on senate.gov: "FBI vs. M0D in '99, BR1NG IT 0N!" ZDNet got into the story, going so far as to mirror the M0D hack and engage the assistance of CyberCrime's Luke Reiter. Hackers Deface Senate, Challenge FBI http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2267421,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014 No Security Lapse in FBI Hack Attack http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,37138,00.html -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: OSAll [www.aviary-mag.com]
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