Information Security News: McDonalds Web site hacked by fluffy bunny

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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000013063,20205255,00.htm

[WK Note- This would appear to be the second time this month that
McDonalds UK site has had its webpage compromised, The first one this
month is archived at:

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/02/03/www.mcdonalds.co.uk/


By Will Knight, ZDNet News
23 February 2001

McDonalds has had its UK Web site hacked and defaced by a computer
cracker calling himself the Fluffy Bunny.

The cracker broke into the company's Web server and defaced the site
with a parody of the burger giant's genuine homepage, renaming the
company McB00biez.

In the format of the original UK McDonalds page, the defacement
advertises such products as "Bexter Nuggets", the "Bunny Burger" and
states: "We want Boobiez".

Security experts say that this sort of defacement can potentially do
the most damage to a company's image.

"It they take a site and just modify it, that's where real problems
happen," says Kevin Black vice president of E-Security, a UK-based
computer security company.

Black points to an incident in 1999 where a group of Scottish hackers
subtly changed a Scottish government Web site to make it look like
Scotland was declaring war on Wales.

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