Brazilian hackers confuse Nasa with NSA in revenge attack

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10316711/Brazilian-hackers-confuse-Nasa-with-NSA-in-revenge-attack.html

By AFP
18 Sep 2013

"Some activists decided to protest this US practice but it seems that they 
picked the wrong target," a specialized blog of the Brazilian news portal 
Uol said.

"They hacked Nasa's web page and left the message: Stop spying on us," it 
said.

The hackers' message also called on the United States not to attack Syria. 
A Nasa spokesman confirmed that a Brazilian hacker group last week posted 
a political message on a number of Nasa websites.

"At no point were any of the agency's primary websites, missions or 
classified systems compromised," said Nasa spokesman Allard Beutel.

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