, The Associated Press 2003-03-27
Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U.S. flag and the message "Let Freedom Ring."
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Hackers replace Al-Jazeera Web site with American flag
, The Associated Press 2003-03-27 Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U.S. flag and the message "Let Freedom Ring."
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First of all it has been always vulnerable to webdav ntdll until a few days ago, when they fixed in conjunction with the ddos occoured to their servers.
Related to yesterday defacement, the hacker notified the defacement to our mirror robots.
Knowing how our mirror robots are working, I can say that if it was a dns poisoning tecnique, then our mirror robot were able to take a snapshot of the defaced site.
But this didn't happen.
Better, it happened but in a slightly different way. In fact the mirror of Al Jazeera defaced page was actually taken by our robots BUT it magically disappeared from our archive after a few minutes.
How this can happen?
Only in one case: only if the hacker actually got access to the A.J. server accesssing the main page and putting a redirecting link pointing to a second page, somewhere on the web, that contains the defacing message.
In this case our mirror robots will get the copy of the first page which contains the redirection link.
The result of this is that if the second page will be removed, changed etc. the mirror of the defacement will magically disappear from our archives, as they point to a non-existing page.
And this is what happened yesterday. Ok it's still a guess, but DNS poisoning is not the tecnique used by the hackers in the Al Jazeera case.
SyS64738 www.zone-h.org admin
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