[45245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone here from Microsoft? Hacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Thu Jan 24 14:44:23 2002
X-Delivered-To: nanog@merit.edu
To: David Diaz <techlist@smoton.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Scott Gifford <sgifford@suspectclass.com>
Date: 24 Jan 2002 14:35:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: David Diaz's message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:28:48 -0500"
Message-ID: <lyk7u7tucq.fsf@gfn.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
David Diaz <techlist@smoton.net> writes:
> If anyone from Microsoft is on the list. You might want to check to
> see if this is a hack or an old employee being funny.
>
> I did enjoy the link that sent me to McDonalds to apply for a job.
>
> Just curious, does anyone know what servers they run their content on?
> Is it still NT?
>
> Hope this info helps the webmaster.
>
> David
>
> http://www.microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354@hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm
This address is actually on hardware.no. See the @ sign? It
instructs the browser to connect to 'hardware.no' and give the
username 'www.microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354'.
It's an increasingly common trick.
So no security breaches, no pissed off employees, no chances to bash
NT. Ah, well.
----ScottG.
