'Deceptive Duo' Strikes Again

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=1884&a=26313,00.asp

By Dennis Fisher 
May 3, 2002

The Deceptive Duo, a Web defacement crew that has struck several
government and banking sites in the last week, on Thursday defaced a
site belonging to Gartner Inc., an IT research firm. As of 4:45 p.m.  
EDT Thursday, the site located at http://asiapac.gartner.com/press was
still displaying the defacement.

Gartner, based in Stamford, Conn., conducts research and analysis on
various segements of the high-tech industry. As such it makes a
high-profile, if somewhat odd, target. The Deceptive Duo has until now
attacked mainly U.S. government and banking sites as part of a
campaign that the pair says is aimed at alerting officials to the
inherent vulnerability of the country's IT infrastructure.

In its defacement, the pair mocked the kind of pronouncements that
Gartner and other research firms make their living with. "Many recent
cyberattacks could have been avoided if enterprises were more focused
on their security efforts, but users seem not to learn from their
mistakes," reads a line at the top of the site, which is attributed to
Richard Mogull, a Gartner research director. The line appears to be
taken from a U.K. trade publication that is paraphrasing Mogull's
conclusions in a recent research report.
 


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