Re: Hacker "Coolio" to work on jail PC's

[Patrick Oonk <patrick () pine nl>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:30:44AM -0500, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
> Oooh. 9 months for defacing two web sites seem a bit extreme to anyone
> else? Exactly what monetary loss is incurred by an anti-drug propaganda
> site?

http://packetstorm.securify.com/docs/hack/i.only.replaced.index.html.txt

"I only replaced index.html"
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 It would appear that the k-r4d kiddies who deface web pages have no
concept of WHY their shenanigans illicit such a violent response from the companies they
attack.  This brief article will list some of the behind the scenes events that occur after
the "harmless" replacement of index.html by our oh-so-favorite political activists.


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> > From: InfoSec News [mailto:isn () C4I ORG]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 3:24 AM
> > To: ISN () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> > Subject: [ISN] Hacker "Coolio" to work on jail PC's
> >
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5080727.html?tag=lh
> >
> > By The Associated Press
> > Special to CNET News.com
> > March 9, 2001, 2:00 p.m. PT
> >
> > CONWAY, N.H. -- A teenage computer hacker who defaced Web sites was
> > sentenced Friday to nine months behind bars--and was ordered to help
> > program the jail's computers.
> >
> > Dennis Moran, 18, who went by the online name Coolio, broke into an
> > anti-drug Web site and another site operated by an Internet security
> > company. The anti-drug site was defaced with pro-drug slogans and
> > images, including one of Donald Duck with a hypodermic syringe in his
> > arm.
> >
> > Prosecutors have said Moran also hacked into Web sites for four
> > military bases but never saw any of their classified material.
> >
> > Moran, who was a 17-year-old high school dropout when he committed the
> > crimes, pleaded guilty in January to misdemeanor charges of hacking.
> >
> > He was also ordered to pay each victim $5,000.
> >
> > The break-in at the anti-drug site occurred at about the same time as
> > major disruptions of sites such as Yahoo and eBay. Moran allegedly had
> > bragged about those attacks but later said he had only been joking. A
> > Canadian teenager was later charged with disrupting eBay and Yahoo.
>
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