Hackers deface four Microsoft Web sites
Friday May 04 01:15 PM EDT
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By Dennis Fisher, eWEEK
A Brazilian (news - web sites) hacker crew that apparently has a grudge
against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) has defaced four
Web sites connected to the company in the past two days.
The most recent vandalism was still live on
the MSNBC Sports scoreboard site as of
10 a.m. EDT Friday. Instead of a list of scores from Thursday's games,
visitors to the site are greeted by a graphic showing a mushroom cloud,
the Prime Suspectz logo and the message "!!BRAZIL RLZ!!"
There is also a message in Portuguese that, roughly translated, reads in
part "MSNBC is holding the bag ... prepare yourselves for a long Prime Suspectz," and one in English
that says, "A great pleasure in the life is to make what the people say not to make."
Because the MSNBC site is run on a server farm, the defacement is only visible after the
www.scoreboard.msnbc.com site is reloaded several times. A note on Attrition.org, which tracks site
defacements, said this is its first recorded defacement of an MSNBC site.
An MSNBC spokeswoman confirmed the site defacement and said that the Scoreboard site is
managed by an outside company, Stats Inc. MSNBC is working with the vendor to find out exactly
how the intruders were able to gain access to the site.
On Thursday, Prime Suspectz apparently defaced the Mexican, Saudi Arabian and British versions of
the Microsoft.com site as well, according to data on the Attrition site. These vandalisms were relatively
minor, however. |
