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Date: 1998-06-09
Nuclear Hacks: Tuerkische Atombehoerden angegriffen-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.6.7.2 Nuclear Hacks: Türkische Atombehörden angegriffen Offenbar wurde das Istanbuler Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Center erfolgreich aufgemacht. Täter: Wieder die MilWOrm group, angeblich Teenies aus den USA, Israel, Neuseeland & UK. relayed by newsbytes. WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1998 JUN 8 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha, Newsbytes. The MilW0rm group, which last Wednesday apparently was able to gain access into India's Bhabha Atomic Research Center, appears to be continuing its attacks on nuclear research centers worldwide. This time, the group of teen-age hackers - more accurately known as "crackers" - allegedly gained access to servers in a Turkish nuclear research facility. According to John Vranesevich, founder of antionline.org, the teen-age intruders gained access to the Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Center in Istanbul and retrieved hundreds of pages of memos and e-mail from scientists, including conversations between Turkish nuclear scientists and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The MilW0rm group, Vranesevich said, also apparently had assistance in accessing the Turkish facility from a second "hackgroup," which also has turned over "proof" that they also gained access to servers in Iran, Israel and Latvia. But like the information retrieved from BARC, none of the information stolen from the Turkish research center appears to be directly related to nuclear weapons research. There do appear, however, to be several encrypted documents downloaded from the Turkish facility, Vranesevich said. Since Newsbytes first broke the story on MilW0rm's penetration into the Indian nuclear research center last Wednesday afternoon, the group, which apparent consists of at least a half dozen teenagers from the US, the UK, Israel and New Zealand, also has claimed they are attempting to infiltrate nuclear research sites in Pakistan as well. But according to one Pakistani source, it would be difficult for any group to infiltrate the Pakistani centers. "Neither Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, nor Kahuta Research Laboratories (Uranium enrichment plant site and research center) have loopholes for external Internet hackers to log in," Rashida Shaikh told Newsbytes. "Computer systems installed over there for nuclear computation and information systems purpose are disconnected from Internet service. Even different remote computer centers are not on WAN (wide area network), except few. So hackers who log in planning to log in using Internet connectivity are just wasting their time." One US computer security expert, however, told Newsbytes that the telling comment in Shaikh's statement is "except few." "It only takes one connection," the security expert told Newsbytes. Meanwhile, a US Army spokesperson confirmed over the weekend that unauthorized sources did break into a US Army computer system last week, but declined to speculate whether that was the route MilW0rm took to gain access to the Indian facility. The incident, however, is being investigate by both the US Army and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Army spokesperson Gerry Gilmore said. The Indian government vehemently denied on Friday that the breach resulted in the loss of sensitive information, saying the hackers only accessed e-mail messages of scientists and the Web site. "Recent access by hackers has been only to e-mail messages of scientists and BARC home page information, and the connections for these are isolated from all other computers used at BARC and obviously do not contain any sensitive information," said S. Narendra, principal spokesman for the government of India, reading a release from BARC officials. According to the MilW0rm group, they gained access to BARC by first going through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) site at tartarus.jpl.nasa.gov. From there, MilW0rm reportedly accessed a US Navy site, yokipc.navy.mil, and then the US Dental Command Center at dencom.army.mil. MilW0rm then reportedly used the Dental Command Center site as a jump point to India. Although Gilmore confirmed the Dental Command site was accessed, other sources told Newsbytes that the JPL site could find no evidence of unauthorized access. Gilmore also said the dencom site was immediately shut down, and has since been secured. India, meanwhile, has played down the unauthorized access into its atomic research center. As reported by Newsbytes, the chairman of the India Atomic Energy Commission, R Chidambaram, denied that MilW0rm gained access to sensitive information of any kind from the classified servers. Chidambaram said they could access only the BARC home page, which was in public domain, and some of BARC's e-mail messages. A BARC senior scientist confirmed that no critical data was wiped out from the BARC computer server, simply because the center physically isolates sensitive data from the Web and e-mail servers which are prone to such attacks. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) from Arge Daten http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-06-09 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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