Information Security News: Never a dull moment...

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

Well this has to be one of the larger mass defacements of government
and military NT servers in recent memory for a 24 hour period. All the
compromised machines were running Windows NT & were using IIS/4.0 for
their webservers. The defacements were all done by Pentaguard or
factions within their group.

[5.20.00] NT [Pentaguard] Federal Maritime Commission
                          (www.fmc.gov)

[5.20.00] NT [H3X0r]      Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
                          (www.gcmrc.gov)

[5.20.00] NT [Pentaguard] National Institute of Health
                          (www4.od.nih.gov)

[5.20.00] NT [Pentaguard] National Institutes of Health
                          (wwwosp.nci.nih.gov)

[5.20.00] NT [Pentaguard] Department of the Treasury - CSM
                          (www.ots.treas.gov)

[5.20.00] NT [Diabl0]     Navy Public Works Center, Site Mechnicsburg
                          (www.pwcdetmech.navy.mil)

All the compromised sites have been mirrored at Attrition and are
online now, and a forwarning, There is potentially offensive language
and script kiddie humour some or all the sites listed above.

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/

William Knowles
wk () c4i org


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