www.zone-h.org – Cyberwar : the beginning
The war in Lebanon is now showing its consequences in the digital world and a huge number of websites has been attacked and defaced as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by Israel.
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.
After that these information had been stolen, they managed in entering the administrative area by using an administrator user ID and password , and finally they made the defacement replacing the homepage with their message…
This group goes with the others that in last days carried out attacks against governmental and commercial websites both from America and Israel, whereas other blackhat groups attacked Israeli websites provoking a denial of service (DDoS) of that particular webpage.
The messages conveyed by all these defacements focus on the idea that, according to the attackers, the search of terrorist is just a pretext for the war on the south of Lebanon, that actually killed a lot of innocent people .
The list of the websites that have been defaced this week follows, including NASA , Berkeley University, Microsoft and U.S Government web pages. [Original article] – with mirrors of the defacements