FC: Online "vigilantes" accidentally deface WTC victim's website

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[I do hope this -- and incidents in the past like the defacement of 
amnesty.org -- will make folks realize that such "hackers" hardly live up 
to the proud history of that word. These malcontents are nothing but 
talentless graffiti sprayers, online vandals who exploit known security 
holes and do little, if any, research on their own. --Declan]

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:12:52 -0400
To: declan () well com
From: Brian McWilliams <brian () pc-radio com>
Subject: Hacking Vigilantes Deface WTC Victim's Site
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Hi Declan,

FYI, looks like a member of the "The Dispatchers," a coalition of Web site 
defacers, accidently "retaliated" Sunday for the terrorist attacks by 
defacing a site operated by Aon Corporation, a company with over 1,000 
employees in the WTC, 200 of which are not yet accounted for.

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170184.html

Brian




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