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 q/depesche 98.9.14/2
 updating   98.9.14/1
 
 NYtimes: wutig, wieder da.
 
 Die New York Times ist wieder da, zumindest teil/weise (c
 below). Hinter  dürren Disclaimers auf Seite 1 (c below)
 brodelt die Wut. "The New York Times wants the FBI to hunt
 the group down and have them prosecuted within the full
 extent of the law" heisst es bei Newsbytes (c below).
 
 So sah die NYtimes Frontpage vor 12 Stunden aus
 http://24.0.214.250/~comega/nyt/index.html
 
 related story
 http://www.jya.com/nyt-hack.htm
 
 post/scrypt: Dass der quint/essentielle Depeschen/dienst
 mehrere Stunden lang ein sogenanntes "world-exclusive"
 hatte, ist dieser beiden Herren Ver/dienst:
 O.Lendl@Austria.EU.net
 Markus.Mittringer@derstandard.at
 
 
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 The New York Times on the Web was unavailable for more than
 nine hours on Sunday, the result of an attack by hackers.
 Most of the site is now available but certain areas,
 including the archive, crossword and some other services,
 remain inaccessible.
 from
 http://www.nytimes.com
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 NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1998 SEP 14 (NB) -- By Adam Creed,
 Newsbytes.
 ...
 HFG broke into the New York Times site at about 7:30am EDT
 Sunday, leaving users wanting to read Times coverage of the
 Starr report facing a front page that included an HFG logo
 and text that read, in "elite" hacker speak, "F1RST 0FF, WE
 HAVE T0 SAY.. WE 0WN YER DUMB ASS." The group claimed the
 break-in was amusing and one done out of boredom.
 
 Jokingly offering their services as security consultants,
 the hackers ridiculed defenses in place at large sites and
 exposed the ease with which they could change and alter Web
 sites if security was poor.
 ...
 The site was eventually taken offline at around 10am EDT.
 
 Alongside the capitalized and "elite" text on the Web page,
 the source code of the HTML revealed more explanation and
 comment. The hackers attacked John Markoff, a New York Times
 reporter who wrote a book on jailed hacker Kevin Mitnick,
 Carolyn Meinel, author of "The Happy Hacker", and
 congratulated themselves on the ease with which they entered
 the Times site, taking a shot at lax corporate security.
 ...
 "Much of the hacker world is unhappy with her because her
 book portrays their type of hacking as a joke and them as
 simple criminals," said B.K. DeLong, director of the New
 England chapter for the World Organization of Webmasters.
 "This defeats one of the primary purposes for hacking which
 is the 'guts and glory' of hearing it mentioned as a cool
 and noble thing," said DeLong, who helped track down the
 NCAA hacker in 1997.
 
 The attack was not a one-off, past hacks by the group
 include sites owned by NASA, Motorola and Penthouse
 magazine. The New York Times wants the FBI to hunt the group
 down and have them prosecuted within the full extent of the
 law. They had the site restored and up running again at 7:35
 p.m EDT.
 
 The hack took advantage of the high traffic at news Web
 sites to promote a grassroots hacker message to a wide
 audience.
 ...
 "These hackers hacked an extremely high profile site," says
 DeLong. "In many movies, terrorists take over radio,
 television stations or newspapers to 'get their message
 heard'. The Unabomber was a similar case, getting his paper
 published in the Washington Post. Now all people have to do
 is hack the site of a high-profile media site that gets
 hundreds of thousands of hits and they have an audience..."
 ...
 Why should this hacking be limited to this group alone? "I
 don't see why someone hasn't hacked into an important
 government site or another organization's site, and not
 touched the design but slightly altered the content to
 change the organizations' point of view," says DeLong. "Like
 logging onto the National Rifle Association site and saying
 they finally agree to ban all assault weapons."
 
 from
 http://www.newsbytes.com
 
 
 
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