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Date: 1998-06-05

Hack: Indiens Nuklearbehörde zweimal aufgemacht


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q/depesche 98.6.5.2

Hack: Indiens Nuklearbehörde zweimal aufgemacht

Kaum sind die Bomben losgegangen haben verdienstvolle Menschen auf bestimmten nuklearen Servern
nachgesehen, was da läuft.
Das pakistanische Pendant dürfte gleichfalls schon in Arbeit sein.
Glück auf!

TOKYO, JAPAN, 1998 JUN 4 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams, Newsbytes.
Officials at an Indian nuclear research center have confirmed their
computer network was infiltrated by a group of hackers and that the
electronic mail system was accessed. "It's all taken care of, there's
nothing to worry about," an official of the Bhadha Atomic Research
Center
(BARC) told Newsbytes by telephone.

The official confirmed the claims of the a group of hackers calling
themselves "Milw0rm" who said they managed to breach network security
at BARC, change the Web home page and download five megabytes worth
of e-mail and data.

"It's a very normal loophole in Sendmail," the BARC official said.
Sendmail is de facto Internet standard software for running electronic
mail
systems. "Definitely, there was some problem with Sendmail, they were
using an old version," he added before refusing to comment any further.

Sendmail has been the object of many security attacks in the past and
most security-conscious users have addressed the loopholes uncovered and
documented over the years. The Sendmail software at BARC had
evidently not been updated with the latest security measures.

The hackers believe they downloaded messages and data related
to India's recent series of nuclear weapon tests but that has yet
to be confirmed.

A single e-mail message from the five megabytes downloaded was passed
to Newsbytes. After being shown it, scientists of the University of
Tokyo's Institute for Nuclear Studies said it had nothing to do with
weapons but that it did containe, "pretty advanced nuclear physics."

Newsbytes has also confirmed a second group of hackers attacked the
BARC Web site. As opposed to the Milw0rm group, which attacked the
network and accessed files, the second group replaced the home page
on the internal Web server with a simple message titled "Just Say No."

The hacked Web page said "Nuclear Tests in India. This page has been
hacked in protest of a nuclear race between the India, Pakistan and
China. It is the world's concern that such actions must be put to end
since nobody wants yet another world war. I hope you understand
that our intentions were good, thus no damage has been done to this
system. No files have been copied or deleted, and main file has been
just renamed," the Web page read.

"Stop the Nuclear Race! We Don't Want a Nuclear Holocaust," it ended
in large, bold, red letters.

At time of writing, the BARC Web site, <A HREF="http://www.barc.ernet.in">http://www.barc.ernet.in
</A> ,
had reverted back to normal although the second Web page hack remains
available at <A HREF="http://www.barc.ernet.in/~barc/barc.html">
http://www.barc.ernet.in/~barc/barc.html</A> .



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