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Geert Lovink: One more anti-NATO hacking story |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <nettime-l-temp@material.net> is the temporary home of the nettime-l list while desk.nl rebuilds its list-serving machine. please continue to send messages to <nettime-l@desk.nl> and your commands to <majordomo@desk.nl>. nettime-l-temp should be active for approximately 2 weeks (11-28 Jun 99). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:10:26 -0400 From: Ivo Skoric <ivo@reporters.net> (by way of Geert Lovink) Subject: One more anti-NATO hacking story The latest on Russian "anti-NATO" hacking assaults, as reported by Gazeta.Ru (Web-based daily newspaper, published in Moscow). A couple of hours ago another 30+ US and Canada sites were hacked in protest, this time against NATO deployment in Kosovo. Needless to say, none of the sites had anything to do with NATO, apart from being physically located in North America. Adolescent Russian cyber-vandals just use the pseudo-patriotic hysteria as a pretext for using trivial hacker exploits against foreign sites with known security gaps. Russian authorities, quite keen on prosecuting domestic hacking, can not act on this sort of "anti-NATO" computer crime, because overseas victims never complain (Gazeta.Ru has obtained this explanation in an official response from the Russian compcrime authorities). Full list of sites hacked (together with technical data and AltaVista queries for contents) is available here: http://gazeta.ru/daynews/16-06-1999/15hackers.htm The article itself is in Russian, but the URL list is in pretty international Latin charset. Translation could be made available on demand. WBR - Dr. Anton Nossik, Editor-In-Chief, Gazeta.Ru Daily Moscow, Russian Federation http://gazeta.ru/