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By Elinor Mills CNET News
Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 01, 2009 4:44:56 AM

Hackers based in Turkey penetrated two US army web servers and redirected traffic from those websites to other pages, including one with anti-American and anti-Israeli messages, according to a report in InformationWeek.

The hackers, who go by the group name 'm0sted', breached a server at the army's McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma on 26 January and a server at the US Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Center in Winchester, Virginia, on 19 September, 2007, the report said.

Investigators believe an SQL injection attack was used to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server database in order to gain access to the servers.

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It is unclear whether any sensitive information was accessed, according to the report.

Search warrants have been served on Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and other ISPs and email providers, while a criminal investigation is underway at the Defense Department, the US Army's Judge Advocate General's Office, and the Computer Emergency Response Team, InformationWeek reported.

The same group defaced the United Nations website in 2007, also using a SQL injection attack.

This article was originally posted on CNET News.

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No classified information was leaked on this breach..
however it is still no excuse! We do the same thing to the badies on their sites as part of our psychological warfare tactics. They just finally got back at us!

I'm sure they picked Turkey as t... (Read the rest)
Posted by: JCitizen Posted on: 06/07/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
A question that puzzles me  InAction Man | 06/01/09
Because if the issue at the  GuidingLight | 06/01/09
Which FBI issue would that be?  Zogg | 06/01/09
You mean the problem with Trend Micro's OfficeScan version 5.0  InAction Man | 06/01/09
Because you are as clueless as the "journalist" reporting this  honeymonster | 06/01/09
Mystify me  InAction Man | 06/01/09
I'm offering you actual data  honeymonster | 06/01/09
It's not the number of vulnerabilities that matter, it's their size.  InAction Man | 06/01/09
yadayadayada.  magallanes | 06/01/09
Journalistic habits rub off  steve@... | 06/01/09
As requested  honeymonster | 06/01/09
Researchers say...  kozmcrae | 06/01/09
Your education is sadly lacking...  Marty R. Milette | 06/01/09
Perhaps I should go get some malware education in Russia,  InAction Man | 06/02/09
Yes, Marty, please use more class..  JCitizen | 06/07/09
let's see: hacked in 2007 - investigation starts in 2009 . . .  wessonjoe | 06/01/09
MS Webservers???  honeymonster | 06/01/09
RE: U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers  RTTECH82 | 06/01/09
RE: U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers  rflulling@... | 06/01/09
RE: U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers  baylors | 06/03/09
Same Goes For Companies  VoiceOfLogic | 06/04/09
RE: U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers  TheDoomp | 06/04/09
No classified information was leaked on this breach..  JCitizen | 06/07/09

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