http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=38246-qqqx=1.asp By Dick O’Brien Sunday Business Post December 14, 2008 Microsoft Ireland has been forced to review its online security after the company’s Irish home page was hijacked by a group of hackers last week. Visitors to the microsoft.ie website last Tuesday were greeted with a message saying that the page had been hacked by a group calling itself the Terrorist Crew. A spokesman for Microsoft Ireland said that the incident was being investigated by the Gardai but it was unable to release any information on whether there were any leads on the identity or motives of the hackers. The hijacked web page listed the online nicknames of seven members of the group. Web searches reveal that several members have claimed credit for numerous hacking attacks on corporate websites in recent years. While some hackers do have financial motives for attacking websites, many attacks are little more than acts of vandalism intended to prove that their perpetrators have the prowess to breach security systems at high-profile firms. Microsoft stressed that none if its own systems had been compromised by the attack. [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Mon Dec 15 2008 - 01:13:39 PST
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