Cyberwar on NASA Websites

Vexorian writes "Two NASA websites were hacked today by a group of Chilean activist hackers. The reason was to protest against the war on Lebanon. The mirror of the defaced site contains an image of an injured child and claims that the sites were running MacOSX."

Comments

They did NOT hack OS X

[mitchell_pgh]

They did NOT hack OS X. They simply hacked the application database running on those platforms. Why would the author indicate OS X was hacked when really, it looks like a large number of the servers hacked were in fact running Linux.

I'm not saying OS X is unhackable, but leaving ANY insecure server software running is asking to be hacked.

Re:OS X hacked or the Web Application

[delire]

According to TFA it was an SQL Injection attack.

Today two NASA websites were attacked as well. The intrusion was carried out by the Chilean group of crackers known as Byond Hackers Crew through a leak in the SQL Injection they entered the system and subtracted user names, passwords and e-mails from the NASA web server.

As much as OSX on a server is a contradiction of terms at the best of times, this wasn't an OS level exploit.

Re:OS X hacked or the Web Application

[Khyber]

If you read their site, they used SQL Injection techniques to get the admin passwords and usernames.

Re:OS X hacked or the Web Application

[laffer1]

OS X server may have a lot of problems, but its not insecure. (provided you use the LATEST version) The problem with OS X server is that apple doesn't like to patch old versions. For instance, a 10.2 server can be crashed easily if its running the built in samba. Exploits will kill an xserve very quickly. They are also a pain to administer, very bad things happen if the reverse dns is changed in 10.4 server, and the permissions model is a pain in the ass.

Yes, I did OS X administration for almost a year.

Photos you did not see on CNN

[Anonymous Coward]

http://209.67.212.138/~lebanon/

It hurts. Sure, you can find similar photos from Israel too, but these are a small group of extremists vs. a government who really should know better.

Fuck Hizbollah, and fuck the Israeli government.

Re:And now...

[LWATCDR]

And Israel invaded Lebanon because they Syrians and other nations used to to stage attacks on Israel. And they are staging attacks on Israel because Israel invaded their lands. And Israel invaded their lands because they attack Israel. And they attacked Israel because they didn't think that the UN should have made that a Jewish home land after WII. And UN made it a Jewish homeland at the same time it was creating countries out of what UK had taken from the Austria-Hungarian Empire in WWI! And they took it from....
Let's all be honest. Blame Italy. It is all their fault.
If ROME had not invaded Israel and destroyed the temple none of this would have happened.
Damn Italians.
Anybody that thinks that they state who is to blame and who is right and who is wrong in just a few sentances doesn't know what they are talking about. I sure can't say who is right and who is wrong. I lean towards Israel in this case just on motivation. Israel wants to stop attacks on people in Israel. Hezbollah wants to kill as many people in Israel as they can. Even that is just a guess. Like I said I don't know who is too blame. I only know who is suffering.

Re:more proof of a foriegn policy failure

[DA-MAN]

Unless, of course, those people dancing in the streets on 9/11 were, you know, doing it out of love.

Actually there was one Muslim country that had a candle light vigil for the US after the bombings of 9/11.

http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/response.htm

Funny that our so called allies (Saudi's, Kuwaiti's, etc) didn't give a rats ass what happened to us.