Hackers, NASA and Shuttle disaster...

Guys,

Hackers defaced numerous NASA web servers on day of Space Shuttle Disaster.

This is the full article taken from here


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On a day of national tragedy, with the folks at NASA in grief at the lost of the space shuttle Columbia and the seven astronauts onboard, a hacking group known as Trippin Smurfs decided to defaced a number of NASA web servers with a rant about Iraq....


: http://maggiore.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://arezzo.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://palermo.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://pisa.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://roma.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://sondrio.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://borgo.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://como.jpl.nasa.gov
: http://urbino.jpl.nasa.gov


Suffice to say that their timing was in extremely poor taste and will probably result in NASA's JPL security dudes putting in some overtime to catch the Trippin Smurfs. Given the tragedy that unfolded today over the skies of Texas, I don't think there is a court in the land that would have much sympathy for the hackers when sentencing. Tip of the hat and thanks to our friends who wrote to us about this poorly timed multiple web site defacement.


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Mmm... i think hackers went TOO far away and beyond limits this time :mad:

Bye,

DKRR

Those guys get whats coming to them. They seem like the lame ones.
good post! -DR-

Agreed...There is no reason for that...At least show some respect.

All the links dont work. They must have been taken down already.

hmm is it possible that their defacement or interferance caused the accident with the space shuttle?

No...I highly doubt it

Guys,

As avenger_jcc says, the links don't function from my first post (i don't know why) but they do if you see them from here

Bye,

DKRR

one word. A**HOLES.

it all stems down to publicity. The Trippin Smurfs chose the NASA Sites today obviously because they will get extra/more/better publicity for their attacks thus increasing their chances of getting their message accross ( more people will read it & comment on it )

It shows no respect at all however by the sounds of their message they dont have any respect for the USA as it is.

Hey Dark, is that site legit?
The links listed in the artical are supposedly Italian city site links? BTW the link themselves are to their own "copy" of the defacement and at the time of this post ALL of the NASA site links don't exist..ie manually key in the link and no responce..
I became suspicious when the articals writer displayed a poor grasp english grammer (almost as bad as mine)..

its a legit story and the links go to a site that holds a mirror of the defacements

The members of that group will ****ing rot in jail, and BORN IN HELL!!!!!!:mad:
How can they do such a thing? Atleast have some respect for the Family of NASA and the family of the 7 seven lost souls. I am so sorry guys plz excuse my language, but i had to let it out, i will feel the pain for weeks, you gusy don't know how much Space Exploration means to me, and NASA, I feel like they are my family, i go to summer camps when i can afford to go. I crying over this that was how much i was hurt by it. I hope God strikes the members of this group with a DEATH THUNDER. -ebo:(

Following is a whois of the ip posted on the link, although the dns seems to be down for the ip. Or it was when I checked.

Final results obtained from whois.arin.net.
Results:

OrgName: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
OrgID: NASA

NetRange: 137.78.0.0 - 137.78.255.255
CIDR: 137.78.0.0/16
NetName: JPL-NET2

Ok I stand corrected.. Did a Whois on the IP's listed with in the info and yes they seem to belong to nasa. SRY..

Please edit your post zzzdawg this info should be seen from everybody, many a**holes is near your post...

That's okay. Thanks.

For those who can't find the contents of the defaced websites, they are all this.

Quote:

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I noticed that an war with Iraq is iminent.. and i wonder why?!"

There are a lot of things i can say about this subject but i believe no one will try to do something about this! I saw these days a lot of news about this .. and it seems that it is going to be a war.. again and again! When is this going to stop? Why does U.S attack Iraq? Maybe because they have i dont know what kind of weapons (chimical,atomic.. and others) but doesnt other countries have that too lets say U.S.A! They have a lot of this and no one is attacking them! there are other countries that have this kind of weapons and no one gives a **** on this!! But when a smaller country tries to improve their technology they aren`t allowd! So let me get this : U.S.A (and also some countries from E.U.) tries to stop them.. and i wonder why ? They want to be the best .. well believe me .. i read a lot of articles about what happend in Afghanistan in this Iraq war will be the same!
But where is Bin Laden? Is he dead .. or Fbi,CIA couldn`t get him.. at least finish that war .. dont start an other .. a lot of people is going to die! And all this for nothing .. or maybe U.S tries to prove how good are they .. that they have the finest technology.. !!
I just want to remember the U.S Senate about 11 september 2001! A lot of people died there but i believe this is an result of what U.S.A did in ASia.. And in my opinion this kind of attacks will always "disturb" U.S.A! I heard that CIA is involved in those attacks so they had do find some one guilty for the attacks at WTC..
I guess this is all .. if anyone gives a **** .. why didnt U.S.A tried to resolv this problem without a war?? As a friend of mine said : U.S.A is a Non-Win situation: if they dont do anything about Iraq then the other countries will say they are weak and can`t to anything about this! , but if they start this war then people aren`t agree with it! I dont have any greetz to add .. just to tell the "scriptkiddies" that they dont have no clue about hacking. Also to this admin that owns this network.. try to read more about security .. or at least leave others do that.. u dont know anything about it! # Social engineering rulez..

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Let's just address this right here, right now...
HOLY ****. I was almost ashamed of being a US citezen in the last few years. I was ashamed because I am the stereotypical American man, fat, white, and ill-informed. I was ashamed of our foreign policy, I was ashamed (mostly) of our citizens, and their inability to see beyond their sheltered existence. But then today came.. And I was once again reminded of what it means to be an American. We have been to SPACE. The most hazardous journey ever concieved, and we've sent over 400 people there and safely back, and, in the process lost but 17, most of which weren't even killed in the process of going to space or returning. We've put people on the MOON. We, and a handful of other nations, including China, Russia, and many others, are the only reason that the human race can conceivably survive the destruction of our home planet. I no longer have a doubt in my mind that we need to take down Hussein. He tortures and kills his own people, and in response to our attempts to stop him, the victims themselves spit on us and call us tyrants. Ever seen the video of how Hussein came to power? And before you write it off as US propaganda, know that it was put together by the BBC, not any US news network, Britain, one of the many countries opposed to our war with Iraq. It details how Hussein gained the loyalty of the growing Iraqi army, convinced the public the president was weak, old, enfeebled, and told him to step down, or he'd be killed. Then called a meeting of the Iraqi senate, announcing they had traitors in their midst, and proceeded to read off the names of every person in the room who could concievably challenge his authority, and had them tortured, then executed. And they call us tyrants. The US doesn't want Iraq to have nukes because we know what they would do with them. Ever notice the US doesn't bother other countries with weapons of mass destruction? OK, OK, North Korea, but that was less about the weapons and more about the fact that they agreed not to develop nukes and they did so anyway in secret. The same with Iraq, the UN told Hussein to disarm, he said he would, he lied. Now more than ever I think the US should take down Hussein. Not Iraq. Hussein. Any regime that cultivates the type of unbridled ignorance shown above should be held accountable. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm tired of this ****. I'm proud of Bush, I'm proud of the astronauts who died today, the astronauts who fly everyday making way for the rest of us to someday leave this festering rat's nest. I am no longer ashamed to be an American, I am ashamed to be a human being. I weep for the species. I wish I was on the shuttle today, I'd be joining the only decent humans I know to have ever existed, and I'd be dying for the only cause I deem worth dying for. That's all I have to say.

I live in Texas. I acctually live in Houston. There definatly is a somber vibe when you go out. The traffic was awefull earlier this afternoon with all the police and military presence. There is not alot to be said about this, but one thing I found Ironic. With it being the first Israeli in space, it blows up, leaving many peices to be found in Palestine, Texas. Kinda creepy....

I looked at the source and then put it in an html editor to see what it said when i first read the story and I got a message about scripts. It gave me the message because it couldnt link to the script in the page.

<$CRIPT language=javascript src="x_files/viewgb.js"></$CRIPT>

I am just wondering if anyone has any guesses to what this could be. Is malicious code found in most defaced sites? It just seems to me that that would be something that some kiddie or someone else would whant to do. I dont know just a thought.

I defenatly hope this person(s) gets busted