A crew of hackers who claim an interest in protecting national security remained at large last week after a round of high-profile defacements that included government and bank Web sites as well as a site belonging to Gartner Inc. The Deceptive Duo early this month hit the Stamford, Conn., IT research company's site. . .
A crew of hackers who claim an interest in protecting national security remained at large last week after a round of high-profile defacements that included government and bank Web sites as well as a site belonging to Gartner Inc. The Deceptive Duo early this month hit the Stamford, Conn., IT research company's site, mocking the kind of pronouncements with which Gartner and other research companies make their living.

"Many recent cyber-attacks could have been avoided if enterprises were more focused on their security efforts, but users seem not to learn from their mistakes," read a line atop the defaced site, which is attributed to Richard Mogull, a Gartner analyst. The line appears to be taken from a United Kingdom trade publication paraphrasing Mogull's conclusions in a recent report.

The Gartner hack marked a rare departure for the Deceptive Duo, which primarily targets U.S. government and financial sites as part of a campaign that the hackers say is aimed at alerting officials to the inherent vulnerability of the country's IT infrastructure.

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