http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/13/ns-21997.html
Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:55:41 GMT
Will Knight
An exasperated hacker has broken into BT's Web servers to protest the
slow rollout of ADSL
BT's Web servers were defaced at the weekend by a computer hacker
angry at the delayed rollout of ADSL across the UK.
The hacker posted a message to BT's public Web site begging to know
when ADSL will made available throughout the UK.
BT's prominent Internet search page http://search.bt.com was defaced
by an enraged message from the hacker, going under the name of Rubix.
It read: "When will ADSL be available? It's been ages now, just gimme
a date when it'll be ready why don't ya. *sigh*. Always Delayed
Slightly Longer".
A spokeswoman for BT said engineers are investigating the company's
security infrastructure following the breach. "The bottom line is we
were hacked," she said. "We were the subject of a server-side break
in."
This spokeswoman said security at BT's Web servers fell foul of a well
known vulnerability in the operating system hosting the Web site,
Microsoft Windows 2000. She said that the vulnerability has now been
patched.
The spokeswoman also said that the culprit did not gain access to
customer information during the break-in. "No-one could see customer
records or billing details," she said.
The rollout of ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology
across Britain has been beset by problems. BT, the UK's incumbent
provider of telecommunications infrastructure, is accused of not
supplying enough engineers to do the job and of putting itself before
competing service providers in the allocation of connections.
In a separate incident, a Web site belonging to a Nato military base
in Northwood in the UK was also compromised by computer crackers who
claimed in a message posted to http://www.eastlant.nato.int/ "We have
stole all your secrets and are now going to sell it. *cough* *cough*
hehe, got yah! Have a good April Fool's Day. Btw do you have anything
to tell us about computer security?".
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Received on Thu Apr 5 05:58 CDT 2001