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[FYI] EU's 'Safer Internet' site hacked
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- Subject: [FYI] EU's 'Safer Internet' site hacked
- From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:11:52 +0200
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/216
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EU's 'Safer Internet' site hackedSite remains down; Internet safety
suffers.
By Kieren McCarthy, The Register
June 13, 2001 1:59 PM PT
The European Union's attempt to promote a safer Internet and "tackle
the controversial issue of illegal and harmful content on the
Internet" has been hacked and is still down a day later.
The unknown hackers left this message on SaferInternet.org: "This is
our world! We are god and we make the rulezzzzz Happy finding us!
The Netherlands is tha place! www.hal2001.nl". Unobjective egotism
aside, the irony is delightful.
[...]
Paul Rogers from MAS Corporate Defence Solutions had this to tell
us: "The server is not as secure as it should have been; it would
seem some patches hadn't been installed. The VNC, ColdFusion system
ports, FTTP access and MS single server port were all open. It was
only going to be a matter of time before it was hacked."
[...]
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