IP: Hackers deface U.S. Senate, challenge FBI

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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Dave


> Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 03:56:55 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Chris Metcalfe <chris () media mit edu>
>
>
> [from:
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=n/zdnet/t
> echnology/19990527/19990527801]
>
> Hackers deface U.S. Senate, challenge FBI
>
> By Joel Deane, ZDNet
>
> The virtual guerilla war between hackers and the U.S. government
> intensified Thursday, with senate.gov
> becoming the latest federal site to suffer a hack attack.
>
> A group calling itself MAST3RZ 0F D0WNL0ADING (MOD) vandalized the official
> U.S. Senate site late Thursday,
> replacing the front page with a blunt message to the FBI -- "SKREW U GUYZ!"
>
> The hacked site was quickly taken down -- senate.gov is currently offline.
> (See ZDNN's mirror of the MOD hack.)
>
> The senate.gov hack comes hard on the heels of two other high-profile hack
> attacks against the FBI and President's official
> online home.
>
> On Wednesday, fbi.gov was knocked offline by a hack attack shortly after
> the FBI served search warrants on members of
> hacker group Global Hell (gH). The FBI's home page is currently offline
> while it investigates possible computer intrusions. (See
> Hack attack knocks out FBI site.)
>
> And, on May 12, whitehouse.gov shut down for 24 hours after it sustained a
> barrage of virtual assaults in protest of NATO's
> bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. (See White House site shut down.)
>
> The senate.gov hack appears to be connected to the earlier fbi.gov attack.
>
> More to follow.