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Crackers fell Cabinet Office Web site
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:42:15 -0500
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000713/22/ad0uj.html Thursday July 13, 5:15 PM Security isn't tight at the centre of UK government Crackers brought down the Cabinet Office's Web site Thursday, defacing the site and forcing its hosting company to take it off line. A cabinet office spokesman says that, to his knowledge, the attack was not politically motivated and describes the message posted on the site home page as nothing more than a "silly note". "Everything possible is being done by the company involved and Cabinet Office staff to remedy the situation," he says. The spokesman admits that, as a prominent government Internet destination, the Cabinet Office Web site is constantly being targeted by computer attackers. "There have been hacking attacks in the past but we've been able to fend them off," he says. "We obviously take security very seriously and it is constantly under review." *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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