A team of hackers, cutting a wide swath of Web-site defacements across the country in what they say is the interests of national security, added servers from Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to a list of conquests today. . . .
A team of hackers, cutting a wide swath of Web-site defacements across the country in what they say is the interests of national security, added servers from Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to a list of conquests today.

As of a Newsbytes deadline today, some of the Internet-connected servers that a team calling itself the Deceptive Duo claimed to have compromised were still sporting the pair's call for tougher security at "critical infrastructure" operated by government agencies, banks, airports and large corporations.

At a USGS server known as epg.er.usgs.gov, the Duo had posted a screen shot of data they claimed came from a USGS database. The information looks like employee records, but Geological Survey officials were not immediately available to confirm the information.

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