Two regional Microsoft Web sites have been defaced in a pair of attacks that call into question the ability of the software giant to enforce a global security policy.
The Greek site, www.microsoft.com.gr, which redirects to the Greek part of Microsoft's corporate site. uses a Netscape-FastTrack/2.01 Web server on SCO Unix kit. The colourful defacement of the site by serial-hacker Prime Suspectz, which features a Brazilian flag and pokes fun of Microsoft's insecurity, has been mirrored on alldas.de and can be seen here. |
More conventionally the Belgian site, www.microsoft.be, which was defaced by Black-Fuuuuuuuu runs Microsoft's IIS5 Web server on a Windows 2000 platform. This defacement can be seen here.
Paul Rogers, network security analyst at MIS Corporate Defence, said evidence from the defacement archives showed that the Belgian server, which is hosted by UUNet, had an open SQL Server database. The Greek site featured a host of vulnerable Unix services, he added.
The graffiti attacks were highly unlikely to have threatened Microsoft's core systems, as a hacking attack on its network last year did but they do little to improve Microsoft's reputation, particular when local partners have let it down before.
Microsoft.com who had some problems a few months ago, is still one of the best protected websites on the world, and I guess nobody will ever be able to hack it. Hackers probably also understand this, and probably therefor they seek for easier Microsoft targets
Source: TheRegister
