I’m late to the party with this article.
Apparently, there are hackers that are ill disposed to the US. Who knew?
From Information Week:
The hackers, who collectively go by the name “m0sted” and are based in Turkey, penetrated servers at the Army’s McAlester Ammunition Plant in McAlester, Okla., and at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Transatlantic Center in Winchester, Va.
The breach at the McAlester munitions plant occurred on Jan. 26, according to records of the investigation obtained by InformationWeek. On that date, Web users attempting to access the plant’s site were redirected to a Web page that featured a protest against climate change.
On Sept. 19, 2007, the same hackers electronically broke into Army Corps of Engineers’ servers.
Interesting. I’m used to the “Pwned by $SCRIPTKIDDIE” type of defacement. A redirect to a page on climate change? OK, I’ll admit that’s a new one for me.
More on that story,
Investigators believe the hackers used a technique called SQL injection to exploit a security vulnerability in Microsoft’s SQL Server database to gain entry to the Web servers. “m0sted” is known to have carried out similar attacks on a number of other Web sites in the past — including against a site maintained by Internet security company Kaspersky Lab.
Ah! Now a remember these characters. Maybe the DoD can use some 31337 cops.
Sorry, had to tie that image in somehow.
