Hacker group gets dose of own medicine
Friday, 21 May 2004 10:20 EST
An alliance called Hackers Against America (HAA) has received a dose of its own medicine with its own website having been defaced, according to information at the defacement archive Zone-H.org. The group had its website hosted by a free provider in Russia. According to Zone-H, it had claimed that new members were rapdily joining up, including one America who had links to the Al Qaeda group. However, one hacker (for whom Zone-H used the pseudonym Marcos) thought it was stupid to attack US server and be affiliated to terrorist groups and so he (Marcos) wrote to HAA, telling them what he thought of their ideas.
The reply he got, according to Zone-H, was so full of insults that Marcos decided to see what he could do to send a message to the group.
He used the headers of the mail sent to him to find the IP address and DNS of the sending server. Scanning it, he found that BIND (software used for DNS) and an FTP server were running.
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