[iwar] Historical posting
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
This was reported on the Attrition.org mailing list on New Years Eve:
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/12/31/www.eff.org/
Sure doesn't look like a "Wolf" page defacement to me. Then again, I'm
not sure what a Russian guy would have to gain in claiming just such a
defacement...
Grant
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Spernow,William wrote:
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:51:49 -0500
> From: "Spernow,William" william.spernow@g...
> Reply-To: iwar@onelist.com
> To: iwar@onelist.com
> Subject: [iwar] News: EFF gets hacked!!!
>
> From: "Spernow,William" william.spernow@g...
>
> This is the best hack claim event I have seen all weekend...
>
> Russian hacker "Wolf" claims to have defaced several
> sites over the holiday weekend. One of these was the
> Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org). He has a
> list of the hacked sites on his Web page at:
> http://www.hackzone.ru/hacked/hacked.html
>
> Bill Spernow
> 978-897-7163
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Cohen [mailto:fc@a...]
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:55 AM
> To: iwar@onelist.com
> Subject: [iwar] News
>
>
> From: Fred Cohen fc@a...
>
> [Happy New Year. Looks like things went pretty well, but we'll see. -
> FC]
>
> Defacements on other side of midnight
> Australia and New Zealand see minor date-stamping
> problems, plus 'spray painting' of some Web sites
> in a so-far-quiet launch to the new millennium.
> Some minor hacking. Australian Webmasters are also
> reporting a rash of harmless, but annoying, Web
> site spray-paint attacks. Typically, these attacks,
> like the one on the investment site Technology
> Investments, leave the home page without any links
> to the rest of the site and the message: "I hacked
> this site simply to say ... welcome to the Y2K!
> ... by siko!"
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2415792,00.html
>
> No signs yet of Y2K cyber-chaos
> A world remade by technology began the rollover to
> the year 2000 today with no early signs of cyber-chaos,
> after years of preparation and billions of dollars
> spent to fix a simple but widespread computer bug.
> http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/43725l.htm
>
> DOD's IT shop find no Y2K glitches, hackers
> One hour after midnight Zulu -- Greenwich Mean Time,
> which the majority of military communications systems
> use -- the Defense Information Systems Agency-Pacific
> could determine that the 120,000 circuits it relies on
> to provide connectivity for U.S. forces survived the
> key New Year time change without a bump. DISA-Pacific
> also had not detected any increase in hacker attacks
> or probes, Harvey said, "which really surprised us
> because this is a period of heightened vulnerability.
> I have three analysts engaged in threat detection and
> analysis, and though they're busy [monitoring the
> networks], they're not seeing anything."
> http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1227/web-disazulu-12-31-99.html
>
> Domain hack hits wireless modem company
> Metricom's Ricochet.net domain name was allegedly
> commandeered by hackers Tuesday, causing emails sent
> to users of the company's wireless modems to bounce
> back to their senders for about 48 hours, the company
> confirmed. Visitors to the Ricochet.net Web site also
> were redirected to a pornographic site for nearly two
> days and some incoming emails continued to bounce back
> until early yesterday, according to Metricom executives.
> Service returned to normal by yesterday afternoon,
> executives said.
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-1510319.html
> Hackers break into rail network's Web page
> Hackers broke into an official Web site and issued a
> false warning that train service in Britain had been
> canceled Friday due to millennium bug problems. The
> warning, which read ``No trains today,'' was discovered
> on Railtrack's Internet site at about 9 a.m., officials
> said. The hoax message also sent greetings to all
> Railtrack directors and ``all the sheep in Wales.''
> http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/068585.htm
>
> FC
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