Paul Wilders
March 27th, 2002, 04:38 AM
-{ Quote: "On Sunday, a Brazilian defacement group known as Silver Lords replaced the home page of a Microsoft customer support site located at http://cust-supp-chat.one.microsoft.com with one of their own.
The defaced page, which was still viewable today, included a message in Portuguese that begins "Bill Gates, my beloved and millionaire friend," and ridicules Microsoft for failing to follow the advice in its security bulletins.
The other defaced sites included the Web home of Microsoft Research's Social Computing Group, and a site for an advisory group for Microsoft's Office suite. All three sites were running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) software, according to Netcraft.
In an online interview today, a Silver Lords member who calls himself "Lord Choo3s" said he attacked the three sites by exploiting an unpatched flaw in an IIS component called FrontPage Server Extensions..." }-
Read the full story - defaced website view included - here:
www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175442.html
The defaced page, which was still viewable today, included a message in Portuguese that begins "Bill Gates, my beloved and millionaire friend," and ridicules Microsoft for failing to follow the advice in its security bulletins.
The other defaced sites included the Web home of Microsoft Research's Social Computing Group, and a site for an advisory group for Microsoft's Office suite. All three sites were running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) software, according to Netcraft.
In an online interview today, a Silver Lords member who calls himself "Lord Choo3s" said he attacked the three sites by exploiting an unpatched flaw in an IIS component called FrontPage Server Extensions..." }-
Read the full story - defaced website view included - here:
www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175442.html