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Re: c4i-pro CIA Web Page Hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Lag=F6?=)
Sat Sep 21 14:21:21 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:22:54 -0500
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Lag=F6?= <anders.lago@mbox300.swipnet.se>
Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Lag=F6?= <anders.lago@mbox300.swipnet.se>
To: David Kennedy <76702.3557@compuserve.com>,
Firewalls <FIREWALLS@GREATCIRCLE.COM>, Risks Digest <risk@csl.sri.com>,
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owner-c4i-pro@stl.nps.navy.mil:
> David Kennedy <76702.3557@CompuServe.COM>
> 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.
>
>
>
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Mister Kennedy!
As a normally passive observer, I can not avoid commenting on your articl=
e.
FYI: The "stop lying" was adressed to the prosecuter in an ongoing=20
Swedish hacker trial.=20
Five hackers stand accused of various hacking, where extensive "free-use"=
of public telephone lines is one of the main issues.
The hackers have obtained access to credit-card numbers which have been u=
sed =20
and have also cracked some of the telephone access codes.
Since the message was written in English and Swedish it is suspected that=
other=20
swedish hackers did this to obtain some publicity worldwide during the on=
going legal process.
The choice of the CIA-homepage is supposedly due to the spectacular value=
it represents.
I hope this information might be of use.
Major Anders Lag=F6
Student at:
Swedish War College
C4I Course 96-98
anders.lago@mbox300.swipnet.se
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