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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."
as usual, military contracting companies provided over-hyped shoddy work to the military, who either didn't know better or didn't care.
Of course, I thought it was going to be as simple as knowing that the password was "Joshua".
I am officially gone from
All your base are belong to us
If they want to prove a point they have to stop targeting US Defense facilities. Hack a serious portal like Slashdot if you can! Ha!
"Sum Ergo Cogito"
I think using SQL injection hasn't qualified as "hacking" since it showed up on XKCD.
I'd like you to stop by my work and bludgeon a few developers of mine over the head, if you would. Seems they're all too busy posting on a site called "BackSlash" or something to check their code.
I don't know what I've been told
But Army server's are quickly pwned
You don't need some high-tech decryption machine
Just a string with a semi-colon in between
I don't know what I will find
When good Army hacker's have resigned
We'll have a good laugh when some bored kid in China
Posts photos of Gen. Petraeus with a vagina
I too can provide vague, uninteresting and falsified anecdotal evidence, look at me go!
Don't you mean "Windows For Warcraft"?
Making up a lot of fake information worked very well for a while, but they seem to have lost track of what information was fake and what was not...
Shhhh!!
And remember to bow to the cookie pushing overlords...
Their tactic of having two or more 6-7 year old girls say in perfect unison "Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies" is diabolical. This overloads one with their cuteness causing loss of some higher brain function. Which compels one to buy these cookies.
I don't lock my doors as night, but I do consider my security system secure. If anyone touches the door handle after 8:00pm, it triggers a shotgun that blows their head off. You wouldn't believe the piles of dead robbers we have in my garage!
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Ya. I suspect this is an attempt to make a lot of soup out of ... (searches for better metaphor) an attempt at looking like they're the crackers in a water soup (sorry, metaphors fail me today) an attempt to exhibit their 1337 cracker skillz to a world who knows who owns the cross hairs. They may have breached a local newsletter, for all we know, but such things can be twisted into brag. (sigh) I just wish The Prophet had said "don't tell lies" instead of "stay off the juice".
and remember they cost.....tree fity