Hackers Against America Get Hacked

21 May, 2004 at 8:08pm ET Article published in Tech

‘An Alliance of Hackers’ dubbed the Hackers Against America (HAA) has had its website defaced by er a Hacker.

HAA were running a version of BIND which was so old that it had a certain vulnerability which all hackers knew about. Being the sort of network experts they are, the Pirates had failed to install the patches.

Submitted by: Leonardo

Source: TheInquirer

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21 May 2004 ~ 8:12pm Spinner Here's a follow up report: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16073

Thanks Leo'.
21 May 2004 ~ 8:24pm Geeky1 *snicker*
21 May 2004 ~ 8:46pm Leonardo One of those moments when the justice is poetic.
21 May 2004 ~ 8:50pm Straight_Man

Spinner wrote:

'An Alliance of Hackers' dubbed the Hackers Against America (HAA) has had its website defaced by er a Hacker.

Submitted by: Leonardo

Source: TheInquirer

AMAZING what laziness and not knowing EVERYTHING does for security, eh??? ME, I hope it was someone from their local government's CERT team. Been done. Or the publisher of the O\S they ran.... Been done too.... Posse Commitatus, DMCA.
21 May 2004 ~ 11:34pm TBonZ LOL!
21 May 2004 ~ 11:35pm GnomeWizardd Truthfully I pray it was a 10 yr old girl sitting in her room. That would be embarassing
21 May 2004 ~ 11:54pm Jolyon33 hahahahahahahahahhaha!!!!
22 May 2004 ~ 4:12pm PirateNinja haa was using: "a non-firewalled Windows XP using a Bind version for Cygwin"

not only being foolish humans, they are also foolish technicians. morons.
24 May 2004 ~ 11:56am Straight_Man Cygwin can be used to get a free compiler to work on a Windows host, as well as other things, but hosting something not intended for use on a box's native O\S gets very complex to secure right. Not defending them, saying they were too lazy to do the job right in first place, agreed.
26 May 2004 ~ 12:48am Unregistered I guess this is because HAA just uses some stupid free web .. it was not THEIR server, was it ?
29 May 2004 ~ 11:21am Unregistered Haa is a retard, there website is so funny http://hackusa.narod.ru/ its jsut a message
29 May 2004 ~ 9:12pm Unregistered That is the best thing ive heard all day. Thanks for the notice!