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-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001
Sunday April 29 2:44 PM ETGovernment Web Sites Up After Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) - Web sites operated by the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (news - web sites) were working properly Sunday after being vandalized one day before by hackers who federal officials believe are from China.
A picture of Wang Wei, the Chinese pilot who was killed in a collision with a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) spy plane April 1, was posted Saturday on Labor's Web site. Agency spokesman Stuart Roy compared the vandalism to graffiti: ``You can lock up a store so the merchandise is safe,'' he said, ``but you can't stop somebody running by with a can of spray paint.''
Technicians had the site fixed within a couple of hours, Roy said, but on Sunday they were ``still checking all the systems to make sure they weren't further penetrated.''
Roy said the hackers were believed to be Chinese because of the content, including Chinese characters, they posted on the site.
HHS spokesman Bill Hall said a picture of Wang was placed Saturday on that agency's site. The surgeon general's site was disabled entirely.
HHS technicians added extra protections to the site's Web pages before putting them back online a few hours later, he said. ``Our sites are as protected as we can make them,'' Hall said, ``but you can never guarantee anything.''
The FBI (news - web sites) and the Federal Computer Incident Response Center are investigating Saturday's attacks, Roy said.
American hackers have vandalized scores of Chinese Web sites since the spy plane collision. Last week, the computer security firms Vigilinx and Symantec warned clients of possible retaliatory attacks by hackers from China around May 1, International Workers Day.
-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001
Seems like the white house historical society got it as well....Link
-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001
"American hackers have vandalized scores of Chinese Web sites since the spy plane collision"That's the first i heard about this..
-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001