Californian Gov website redirects to porn
The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon. On Thursday, compromised pages hosted by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Superior Court of Madera County, California, were still hosting inappropriate content. Brookhaven had links that redirected visitors to pornographic Web servers, and the Madera County court site featured ads for porn and Viagra.
The security of U.S. government Web sites has been front-page news in California this week after the U.S. General Services Administration, which administers the .gov top-level domain, temporarily removed California’s state servers from the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, apparently because of a security problem on the Web site of a small state agency, the Transportation Authority of Marin. Hanacek credits the GSA with doing its job in identifying there was a problem. But he said the agency shut down California’s domain apparently without first consulting any authorities in the state. “It was like using a shotgun to kill a flea,” he said. Forget about terrorists, fight against hackers!
Source: Reuters
Comments(9)
LOL
–Saiyanfury
So were they hacked and had bad stuff put on or did they just use an ad company to generate revenue and the ad company had bad ads?
well i wouldnt wonder if the target porn site had some kind of affiliate deal, but it obviously couldnt bring too much revenue because of wrong audience targeting…
This was good. However, you know, even though it was funny, come on, porn? Just some kiddies defacing websites, or Steve Jobs got mad because anold wouldn’t but an iPhone. Anyways, I still think that if your going to hack something public, you should at least send people somewhere useful, like, say, ourhollowearth.com . Hehe, the porn thing is just immature, and over-done. If your going to hack and redirect, MAKE IT COUNT, we have geniuses that can’t come up with anything more creative than tits and ass. At least photoshop the images and put Arnold’s face on all the bodies
So, lets play guess the ag of the hacker. (cracker to be PC)
I doubt they used an ad service, or the porn sites had any affiliate deal, the porn and the owners of the sites were probably oblivious to the whole thing. Too uch of a risk to try that, plus if caught, it wouldn’t be just defacing govt. property, and etc, buy add in profiting off govt property and a whole range of things. Now womeone go do some good and hack RIAA amd MPAA with a redirect to TPB
LOl!! XD
old news
Obscurax
October 7th, 2007 | 14:18
old news
a very relevant comment…
Okay, it might be old news, but are we the only smart guys here or what? I hope that they don’t fight against hackers,… as you know that would be a loss of time since they’re fighting the wrong kind of “criminal” group.
so… who should they be fighting?
answer the question and WIN
prize: a big thing called nothing