Vol.Three Issue #107 The Surveillance List Forum June
2,1998
02) CzERT group of hackers ravage Czech & Slovak cyberspace
2)From: hippyman <<hippyman@alltel.net>
I don't know if a country on earth exists whose high profile Web sites
have been repeatedly hacked for over two years with the perpetrators still
on the loose as in the Czech Republic (Czechia) and Slovak Republic
(Slovakia). As reported by IntelliTech Media's Networked Business &
Information Security
News (NBISN),
<<http://www.intellitech-media.cz/sa/nbisn>http://www.intellitech-media.cz/sa
/nbisn, on 18May1998, the
CzERT group of Czech and Slovak hackers continue to ravage the net,
claiming over 200 hacked Web sites (CzERT is pronounced "chairt" which
sounds like the Czech word "Cert" which means "devil" or "demon"). 36 of
these hacks (23 in Czechia, 13 in Slovakia, total of 28 sites hacked with
7 sites twice-repeatedly hacked and one site thrice-repeatedly hacked) are
archived at
<<http://www.intellitech-media.cz/sa/cee-hack-archive>http://www.intellitech-
media.cz/sa/cee-hack-archive and include hacks of the Czech Army, a bank,
a Web chat site (hackers posted list of alleged software pirates), a
search engine site, a magazine for police, ISPs (little animated e-man
sauntered across the screen and pissed on the ISP's logo), a couple of
daily news sites, a press agency (delivered their own news story), a
computer magazine site, UNICEF's site, software vendors' sites, schools,
various ministries and more. Some of the latest hacks have boldly taunted
the Police captain who is solely responsible for catching the hackers.
The latest hack, 16May1998, featured a picture purported to be that of the
police captain... it was indeed the picture of a pleasant and
compassionate looking "sea captain" kind of a guy featured on packages of
"Captain Igloo" frozen fish sticks.
NBISN's 4,775 word story "CzERT lives on," presents plenty of views into
the CzERT members' cyber-personalities and clues as to their identities...
but they remain on the loose and boldly claim to have done a hell of a lot
more than just hack a few publicly visible Web sites. Perhaps the risk of
most interest to foreigners is in doing business in countries like Czechia
and Slovakia where there is plenty of money being spent and made on
computing, networking and communications hardware and software but far too
little money available for crime-fighters. One view is that the USA and
other countries are, in essence, blindly putting technology into the hands
of criminals.
A police major in the capital city of Prague with almost 15 years of
service makes only about US$ 500 per month and the police are way behind,
for the most part, when it comes to technology. Most police I have
interviewed who do have PCs are using 386- or 486-based machines and
police
Internet connectivity is very scarce. Many IT companies, whether US,
Canadian, West European, Asian or whatever, come here to make lots of
money but totally ignore developments in crime and law-enforcement.
Perhaps it's about time that they all pitched in and made a big donation
to help bring crime-fighters up to speed.
-o-
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Received on Tue Jun 2 11:22:31 1998