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CIA Web Page Hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kennedy)
Thu Sep 19 16:44:56 1996
Date: 19 Sep 96 14:47:59 EDT
From: David Kennedy <76702.3557@compuserve.com>
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Courtesy of Reuter's News Services via CompuServe's Executive News Service
>> WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The Central Intelligence Agency,
>> that bastion of spy technology and computer wizardry, pulled
>> the plug on its World Wide Web site on the Internet Thursday
>> after a hacker broke in and replaced it with a crude parody.
>> CIA officials said their vandalized homepage -- altered
>> to read "Welcome to the Central Stupidity Agency" -- was in
>> no way linked to any mainframe computers containing
>> classified national security information.
o Hacker got in on Wednesday night and the CIA took the system down on
Thursday morning.
o Part of the hacker's text included "stop lying."
o Article states "cyber-attack matched" Department of Justice web server
compromise.
[DMK: No technical details yet. Surely somebody captured a mirror of it and
will post it just as the DOJ corruption is available. More as it becomes
available.]
Dave Kennedy CISSP Dir Research, Nat'l Computer Security Assoc.
