Microsoft.com Hacked and Defaced

24 May, 2004 at 5:29pm ET Article published in Tech

It has been reported that Microsoft Press has been defaced this evening by a group named “Outlaw Group”. Although the group doesn’t seem to have caused much damage, this is clearly an embarassment for Microsoft.com webmasters.

Source: Microsoft

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24 May 2004 ~ 6:02pm entropy lol, although i run it too, betcha any money they were running windows servers...
24 May 2004 ~ 7:07pm BlackHawk :Pwned:
24 May 2004 ~ 7:07pm Camman isnt that kind of inaccurate to say "Microsoft<b>.com</b>" hacked when it was "Microsoft Press" site?? I just got the impression it was the like main microsoft site
24 May 2004 ~ 7:27pm Leonardo Microsoft Press is part of the Microsoft.com site.
24 May 2004 ~ 8:38pm Straight_Man Um, what URL was given in the report????

Base URL for Microsoft Press is inside Microsoft's Learning area from within US....

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/default.asp

And even the site menuing is different from here, than on that page-- is this another spoof page rehook thing the reporter encountered??????
24 May 2004 ~ 8:39pm primesuspect www.microsoft.com/mspress/

The fixed it so it redirects to the learning site. But earlier I went there myself and it was just down with a "Virtual directory listing denied".
24 May 2004 ~ 9:18pm Camman

Leonardo wrote:

Microsoft Press is part of the Microsoft.com site.

I get that but generally if you say something like hey "Yahoo.com got hacked" and someone goes there your thinking like the main site, not like oh yeah its actually yahoo.com/subdirectory/othersite.asp
25 May 2004 ~ 10:36am RWB

Camman wrote:

I get that but generally if you say something like hey "Yahoo.com got hacked" and someone goes there your thinking like the main site, not like oh yeah its actually yahoo.com/subdirectory/othersite.asp

Agreed, but the intarnet is full of errors
25 May 2004 ~ 10:52am Straight_Man

primesuspect wrote:

www.microsoft.com/mspress/

The fixed it so it redirects to the learning site. But earlier I went there myself and it was just down with a "Virtual directory listing denied".

That makes sense.