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Hackers Breached US Army Servers
An anonymous reader writes "A Turkish hacking ring has broken into 2 sensitive US Army servers, according to a new investigation uncovered by InformationWeek. The hackers, who go by the name 'm0sted' and are based in Turkey, penetrated servers at the Army's McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma in January. Users attempting to access the site were redirected to a page featuring a climate-change protest. In Sept, 2007, the hackers breached Army Corps of Engineers servers. That hack sent users to a page containing anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric. The hackers used simple SQL Server injection techniques to gain access. That's troubling because it shows a major Army security lapse, and also the ability to bypass supposedly sophisticated Defense Department tools and procedures designed to prevent such breaches."
The US Army uses Windows servers?
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I am always surprised at the quickness at which /. tends to claim incompetency with news like this. My first thought was basically, "haha turks, you're a bunch of turkeys." As in, yay for hacking an intentionally hackable and most probably filled to the brim with mis-information networked computer.
Please, you have the right to speak freely, and write freely. Thank the military for doing SOMETHING correctly, simply because you still have these rights.
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