Newsbytes News Network, Oct 21, 2001 by Brian McWilliams
Delivering on earlier threats, a Pakistani hacking group defaced a Web site operated by the U.S. Department of Defense on Saturday.
A crew known as GForce Pakistan replaced the home page of the Defense Test & Evaluation Processional Institute (DTEPI) site with a text message about terrorism and Islam. The defaced page also included several photographs described by the attackers as depicting Muslim children killed by Israeli soldiers.
The vandalized site, located at http://www.dtepi.mil , was still viewable Saturday evening. Two other addresses affiliated with the site, including http://enduringfreedom.dtepi.mil and http://nasa.dtepi.mil , were also vandalized with the same message.
Operation Enduring Freedom is the name given by the Department of Defense to its campaign against terrorists in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The attackers' message said Arabs and Muslims fear "retaliation due to unjustified stereotyping and accusations" in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on America. The group also criticized the U.S. for historically failing to stop worldwide violence against Muslims.
Traffic requests to the DTEPI site appear to be handled by KCnet, an Internet service provider in Kansas City.
According to Brian Martin of the Attrition.org hacking information site, the attackers may have used a technique called "DNS poisoning" to cause the defacement. Rather than attack the DTEPI Web server directly, GForce may have penetrated the site's name server and redirected visitors attempting to reach the DTEPI site to a compromised server at KCnet, according to Martin.
GForce's message included a threat to deface 1,500 U.S., British, and Indian Web sites in the next month, and claimed to have already obtained sensitive data from Indian government officials. The group also threatened to launch a one terrabyte-per-second denial of service attack against a site that had apparently published information critical of the defacers.
"We have suffered throughout the ages and will suffer no more. This is the era of cyberwarfare, where once again the Muslims have prevailed. We will not rest till every node, every line, every bit of information contained in our suppressors has not been wiped out, returning them to the dark ages," said the message.
On Wednesday, GForce vandalized a Web server operated by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In a message at the defaced site, the attackers said they were part of a group called the Al-Qaeda Alliance Online that planned to target "major US military and major British Web sites" in coming days and jeopardize their internal security.
The Defense Test & Evaluation Processional Institute provides online and CD-ROM training courses in modern defense testing, according to a copy of the site's original homepage cached by the Google search engine.
The defaced page also contained a link to an animated presentation about Islam located at a site operated by the Muslim Student Association at Oregon State University.
Alldas' mirror of the defaced site is at http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/10/20/www.dtepi.mil/ .
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com .
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