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Date: 1998-09-14

NYtimes: wutig, wieder da.


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q/depesche 98.9.14/2
updating 98.9.14/1

NYtimes: wutig, wieder da.

Die New York Times ist wieder da, zumindest teil/weise (c
below). Hinter dürren Disclaimers auf Seite 1 (c below)
brodelt die Wut. "The New York Times wants the FBI to hunt
the group down and have them prosecuted within the full
extent of the law" heisst es bei Newsbytes (c below).

So sah die NYtimes Frontpage vor 12 Stunden aus
http://24.0.214.250/~comega/nyt/index.html

related story
http://www.jya.com/nyt-hack.htm

post/scrypt: Dass der quint/essentielle Depeschen/dienst
mehrere Stunden lang ein sogenanntes "world-exclusive"
hatte, ist dieser beiden Herren Ver/dienst:
O.Lendl@Austria.EU.net
Markus.Mittringer@derstandard.at


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The New York Times on the Web was unavailable for more than
nine hours on Sunday, the result of an attack by hackers.
Most of the site is now available but certain areas,
including the archive, crossword and some other services,
remain inaccessible.
from
http://www.nytimes.com
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NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1998 SEP 14 (NB) -- By Adam Creed,
Newsbytes.
...
HFG broke into the New York Times site at about 7:30am EDT
Sunday, leaving users wanting to read Times coverage of the
Starr report facing a front page that included an HFG logo
and text that read, in "elite" hacker speak, "F1RST 0FF, WE
HAVE T0 SAY.. WE 0WN YER DUMB ASS." The group claimed the
break-in was amusing and one done out of boredom.

Jokingly offering their services as security consultants,
the hackers ridiculed defenses in place at large sites and
exposed the ease with which they could change and alter Web
sites if security was poor.
...
The site was eventually taken offline at around 10am EDT.

Alongside the capitalized and "elite" text on the Web page,
the source code of the HTML revealed more explanation and
comment. The hackers attacked John Markoff, a New York Times
reporter who wrote a book on jailed hacker Kevin Mitnick,
Carolyn Meinel, author of "The Happy Hacker", and
congratulated themselves on the ease with which they entered
the Times site, taking a shot at lax corporate security.
...
"Much of the hacker world is unhappy with her because her
book portrays their type of hacking as a joke and them as
simple criminals," said B.K. DeLong, director of the New
England chapter for the World Organization of Webmasters.
"This defeats one of the primary purposes for hacking which
is the 'guts and glory' of hearing it mentioned as a cool
and noble thing," said DeLong, who helped track down the
NCAA hacker in 1997.

The attack was not a one-off, past hacks by the group
include sites owned by NASA, Motorola and Penthouse
magazine. The New York Times wants the FBI to hunt the group
down and have them prosecuted within the full extent of the
law. They had the site restored and up running again at 7:35
p.m EDT.

The hack took advantage of the high traffic at news Web
sites to promote a grassroots hacker message to a wide
audience.
...
"These hackers hacked an extremely high profile site," says
DeLong. "In many movies, terrorists take over radio,
television stations or newspapers to 'get their message
heard'. The Unabomber was a similar case, getting his paper
published in the Washington Post. Now all people have to do
is hack the site of a high-profile media site that gets
hundreds of thousands of hits and they have an audience..."
...
Why should this hacking be limited to this group alone? "I
don't see why someone hasn't hacked into an important
government site or another organization's site, and not
touched the design but slightly altered the content to
change the organizations' point of view," says DeLong. "Like
logging onto the National Rifle Association site and saying
they finally agree to ban all assault weapons."

from
http://www.newsbytes.com



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