Gates victim of newspaper site hoax

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti646.htm

SANTA ANA, Calif, (Bloomberg)  The Orange County Register said its Web
site was infiltrated Sept. 29 and that an article was changed to say
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates had been arrested for breaking into NASA
computers.

The story was about Jason Diekman's arrest for breaking into Web sites
at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said Nancy Souza, spokeswoman for the
paper.

Some sentences were changed, and Gates' name was substituted for
Diekman's. One sentence claimed to name a confidential source used by
prosecutors. It wasn't the correct name, according to Inside.com, a
Web-based media and entertainment news service that reported the
hacking earlier Tuesday.

The Register is owned by closely held Freedom Communications. It
covers suburban Los Angeles municipalities, including Anaheim, Irvine
and Mission Viejo.

It's the first time hackers have changed the content on the
newspaper's site, Souza said. The break-in was noticed and fixed in
about 45 minutes. The newspaper has changed security procedures to put
a so-called ''firewall'' around the entire server, Souza said.

Microsoft was unable to comment immediately.


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