[iwar] [fc:Anti-India.Crew.turning.attacks.toward.US]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Anti-India.Crew.turning.attacks.toward.US]
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[More on the GAO defacements.]

<a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172829.html">http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172829.html>

By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
10 Dec 2001, 9:39 AM CST
 
The security of five Internet servers operated by the U.S. General
Accounting Office was breached Sunday by a hacking group known as Anti
India Crew. 

Laura Kopelson, a spokesperson for the GAO, confirmed that a network
intrusion had taken place and said the agency was investigating. 
According to Kopelson, the agency's main Web site at http://www.gao.gov
was not affected, but she declined to provide further information. 
 
The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress. The agency "works to
continuously improve the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the
federal government," according to the site. 

The compromised systems included two servers that handle the accounting
office's e-mail, as well as a file transfer system and two Web servers,
according to information obtained by Alldas and Safemode, two independent
sites that keep records of such attacks. 

E-mails to the GAO's service for distributing daily reports and decisions
bounced back today with "mailbox unavailable" error messages. 

All of the GAO systems were running the Linux operating system, according
to Alldas records. 

Anti India Crew (AIC) posted a message at one of the defaced Web servers
that included the statement: "We will hit the us/in/il government servers
until there is peace around us!" 

AIC is part of a hacking coalition calling itself the Al-Qaeda Muslim
Alliance. Other members include the GForce Pakistan hacking group and the
Pakistan Hackerz Club. 

In recent months, AIC has attacked 28 Web sites in India. The GAO servers
were the first U.S. government systems compromised by the group, according
to Alldas records. 

Safemode's mirror of the GAO defacements is at
<a href="http://www.safemode.org/mirror/2001/12/09/ftp.gao.gov">http://www.safemode.org/mirror/2001/12/09/ftp.gao.gov> 
. 

The Alldas mirror is at
<a href="http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/12/10/titan.gao.gov">http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/12/10/titan.gao.gov> 
. 

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