Hackers deface Senate, challenge FBI By Joel Deane 05/27/99 09:31:00 PM

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Senate.gov joins the growing list of hacked federal sites -- FBI hacker crackdown appears to be motivation.

The virtual guerilla war between hackers and the U.S. government intensified Thursday, with senate.gov becoming the latest federal site to suffer a hack attack.

A group calling itself MAST3RZ 0F D0WNL0ADING (MOD) vandalized the official U.S. Senate site late Thursday, replacing the front page with a blunt message to the FBI -- "FBI vs. M0D in '99, BR1NG IT 0N!" The hacked site was quickly taken down and senate.gov is currently offline. (See ZDNN's mirror of the MOD hack.)

The senate.gov hack comes hard on the heels of two other high-profile hack attacks against the FBI and President's official online home. On Wednesday, fbi.gov was knocked offline by a hack attack shortly after the FBI served search warrants on members of hacker group Global Hell (gH). The FBI's home page is currently offline while it investigates possible computer intrusions. (See Hack attack knocks out FBI site.)

And, on May 12, whitehouse.gov shut down for 24 hours after it sustained a barrage of virtual assaults in protest of NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. (See White House site shut down.) FBI connection

The senate.gov hack appears to be connected to the fbi.gov attack, at least in motivation.

In its message on senate.gov, the MOD says: "The FBI may be all over the other groupz, like those gH and tK queerz ... M0D make th0se m0ronz l00k like a gr0up of special-ed st00denz [students]." The hacked page also features a picture of what appear to be four intellectually disabled children.

In related news, the FBI's gH raid inspired an hack attack on 20 sites hosted by Hampton Internet Inc. in Quogue, N.Y.

Hampton Internet system administrator Mark Wauchope said the the company's server was hacked early Wednesday and 20 of the 100 hosted sites were replaced with a banner message. That message says that the FBI's actions have awoken a "new revolution" -- and warns the FBI to free the gH and imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick or "die."

CyberCrime's Luke Reiter contributed to this report. ==================================================================== Cyberterrorism...it's here...it's now and I suppose it wont be long before we'll all need to be "saved".

Mike ===========================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), May 28, 1999

Answers

CBS radio news, Fri. 1:00 AM east, says FBI site down again. Hummm. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), May 28, 1999.

maybee debunk guys can help them. I understand they have been attacked lately.[g]

-- R. Wright (blaklodg@hotmail.com), May 28, 1999.

BRAHAHAHA,, LOL,,ROTFLMAO

-- CT (ct@no.yr), May 28, 1999.

If you haven't seen it yet, here's a mirror of the hack...

http:// www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/www_senate_gov.html

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), May 28, 1999.