TURKISH HACKERS BROKE INTO AMERICAN MILITARY WEB SERVERS
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
29.05.2009 20:44 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish hackers, who collectively go by name m0sted,
have broken into two American military Web servers at the Army’s
McAlester Ammunition Plant in McAlester, Okla., and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers’ Transatlantic Center in Winchester. The breach
at the McAlester ammunitions plant occurred on Jan. 26, according
to records of the investigation obtained by InformationWeek. On that
date, Web users attempting to access the plant’s site were redirected
to a Web page that featured a protest against climate change. On
Sept. 19, 2007, the same hackers electronically broke into Army Corps
of Engineers’ servers. The page, at the time, contained anti-American
and anti-Israeli rhetoric and images, records show.
Hackers are believed to have benefited by vulnerability of Microsoft
SQL Server. Earlier, that method was used for penetrating into other
resources, including Kaspersky Lab’s Web site, Lenta.ru reports.