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Date: 1998-11-17
Hack gegen Indiens Atombehoerde aufgeklärt-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.6.7.2 Hack gegen Indiens Atombehoerde aufgeklärt Wie t3k-9 & IronLogik in das indische Atomforschungszentrum Bhabha eindrangen sind, wie sie dort eigene Eingänge einrichteten, über die dann eine ganze Gruppe von Hackern einfiel & randalierte & warum die vorher nicht existente MilwOrm Group dadurch zu Hacker/ruhm & Ehren kam, steht in der unten auszugsweise wiedergegebenen Geschichte aus dem digitalen Forbes Magazin. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Adam L. Penenberg ... It was mid-May, 1998, when 15-year-old 10th grader, Joey Westwood (not his real name) was watching the TV coverage of India's underground nuclear tests. ... Joey decided to wreak vengeance on the Indians. And he would accomplish this without leaving his bedroom in suburban America. In cyberspace, where Joey spent much of his life, he went by the name t3k-9. ... He checked in with search engine Infoseek, and plugged in ".in atomic," the equivalent of typing "India, atomic research." One of the first sites to come up was India's Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), which he read had been instrumental in helping India develop the A-bomb. ... Joey pointed and clicked his way to the BARC site and accessed the John the Ripper DES Encryption Cracker software he had downloaded off the Internet, where literally thousands of complex hacker applications and "how-to" guides are available from web sites and hacker chat channels. The password cruncher worked by setting up a phony log-in program so that BARC thought it was accepting a connection from a friendly machine. Then, by brute force, the cruncher tried every single combination of letters and numbers until it hit the jackpot. .... Forty-five seconds after he'd started, t3k-9 was amazed to discover that he'd cracked one of the passwords. He was inside India's number one atomic research network. ... He checked the password: "ANSI." Someone's name, he thought, the same as the log-in prompt. He couldn't believe his luck. The administrator hadn't followed standard password selection rules, which would have meant complex strings of numbers and letters ... t3k-9's first step was to download all the passwords and log- in names. Then he installed a "backdoor" that would enable him to gain entry into the system without being detected. ... t3k-9 decided to get out while the getting was good, downloading a few E-mails and a scientific document for souvenirs. Then, after erasing logs to ensure no one would be able to track him, he logged off. If he'd kept this to himself, no one would have ever known. .... After logging on to Internet Relay Chat, t3k-9 headed over to one of the hacker channels. IRC is a place on the Internet where you can conduct real-time chat without anyone being able to track you. After checking who was around, t3k-9 found out that IronLogik, a hacker he calls his friend but has never met in the flesh, was also floating about. .... IronLogik immediately left IRC and got to work, entering BARC via t3k-9's backdoor. Within 45 minutes, he was able to achieve superuser status. That meant IronLogik had gotten "root," or total control, as if he were the network's system administrator. IronLogik could read any document or E-mail he felt like. .... IronLogik created two new "users" with passwords of his own invention, so that even if BARC changed its password protection scheme he'd still be able to gain access. ... IronLogik's real first name is Ratko and he's an 18-year-old immigrant from Serbia. For fun, he DJs parties from his laptop with pirated music he's downloaded off the Internet. ... While t3k-9 talks big about the threat of nukes but has no direct experience with them, Ratko is different. He grew up near a military base with hated Russian MIGs constantly roaring overhead, carrying nuclear warheads and spreading intimidation. Ratko thinks nuclear weapons should be strictly for protection, not genocide. "If a country uses nuclear arms to threaten other nations, then they do not deserve to carry them," he says. .... Equipped with a military IP, BARC would identify him as a regular U.S.-based researcher. Changing his IP address to one associated with the military was like changing into a soldier's uniform. It made for good camouflage. ... He maneuvered over to BARC's R&D server and sifted through E-mail, both new and already read. The UNIX system BARC relies on saves all mail until the system administrator deletes it. ... The next day, Ratko showed two of his Indian classmates the printouts of BARC's logs and "threatened to sell the information to my Russian superiors." ... Which is why t3k-9 posted the whole BARC password file-- all 800 passwords and log-in names--on one of the hacker channels. Immediately, hackers began accessing this information and preparing to attack BARC. ... Shortly after, Wired News broke the story with an exclusive interview with milw0rm, whose members buttressed their claims by producing a mirror of BARC's hacked home page. ... IronLogik, unsurprisingly, was irritated. It wasn't fair, he thought. t3k-9 had been the first one in, then IronLogik. All the rest of those hackers, including milw0rm--especially milw0rm--had coasted in on their work. And milw0rm's claim that it used a sendmail bug to penetrate BARC was false. Rather, "they had used the backdoors that t3k-9 and I set up," says IronLogik .... In the meantime both have moved on. t3k-9 recently found a security hole in Microsoft's Front Page software product and IronLogik has been exploring other atomic targets--Iran, Iraq, Italy and Turkey. In fact, a few days after he hacked BARC, IronLogik nailed a nuclear research center in Turkey. .... Full Text From: http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/98/nov/1116/featb.htm relayed by hackerelite@deathsdoor.com via jericho@dimensional.com> -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-11-17 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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