RE: Cyber terrorism is 'fantasy'//Reply - Newsbyte Story

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: C. L. Staten <sysop () emergency com>

'Mujihadeen' Hackers Take Out US Government Sites 

By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes, 11/30/2001 

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172582.html

Two Web sites operated by the United States government were attacked
Thursday by a group that threatened violence against Americans.

The hackers vandalized the home page of the NOAA Office of High
Performance Computing and Communications, as well a Web server
operated by the National Institute of Health's National Human Genome
Research Institute, according to a mirror of the defacements captured
by the Alldas defacement archive.

Both defaced pages bore the flag of Saudi Arabia and contained titles
that read, in Urdu, "Allah is the greatest of all." At the bottom of
the pages was a sentence that read in Urdu "Americans be prepared to
die."

The hackers did not identify the name of their group but signed the
pages "anonymous."  Officials from the two U.S. organizations were not
immediately available for comment. Both Web sites, which were running
the Apache Web server on the Linux operating system, were unreachable
today.

In the message at the NIH site, the attackers called themselves
"mujihadeens" and wrote "we are not hacker, we are just
cyberterrorist." On the NOAA site, the group threatened "the greatest
cyberterrorist attack against American government"

Separately, a Web site attacker from a group called World Of Hell
today defaced a server operated by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and
Development Center (ERDC).

The home page of the Army's Waterways Experiment Station was replaced
with the World of Hell logo and a taunting message that included
greetings to numerous other defacers.  The attacker, who used the
nickname Rivver, claimed to have obtained classified information that
he threatened to distribute.

According to a copy of the original site cached at the Google search
engine, the ERDC's mission is "to conceive, plan, study and execute
engineering investigations and research and development studies in
support of the civil and military missions of the Corps of Engineers
and other federal agencies."

Among the groups listed in the "shoutz" section of the World of Hell
defacement was GForce, a Pakistani hacking crew that recently formed
the Al-Qaeda Alliance to attack Department of Defense sites. GForce
defaced two military sites in October.

A mirror of the NOAA defacement is here:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/11/29/hpcc.fsl.noaa.gov/ . 
The NIH site defacement is mirrored at
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/11/30/snoop.nhgri.nih.gov/ . 
The Army site defacement is mirrored at
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/11/30/www.wes.army.mil/ .



-
ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org

To unsubscribe email majordomo () attrition org with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY
of the mail.