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Deceptive Duo: Cyber Attack Campaign Highlights Security Flaws

Calendar May 03, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The 'Deceptive Duo' are attacking Web sites across the Internet to emphasise online security flaws A group of hackers has defaced dozens of Web sites in the past two weeks and published sensitive data culled from the sites in what it says is an effort to increase awareness of online security risks. . . . The 'Deceptive Duo' are attacking Web sites across the Internet to emphasise online security flaws A group of hackers has defaced dozens of Web sites in the past two weeks and published sensitive data culled from the sites in what it says is an effort to increase awareness of online security risks.

The group, which calls itself the Deceptive Duo, is in the midst of a multipart hacking campaign targeting different sectors of government and industry. Initial victims have included the Federal Aviation Administration, the US Department of Defense and Sandia National Laboratories.

Each defaced Web page is replaced with a message identifying the group and its goal: "Locate and scan critical cybercomponents of The United States of America for vulnerabilities creating a foreign threat, while remaining undetected...Take necessary measures to ensure that the public is aware of The United States of America's lack of security. Include proof/documentation of infiltrated systems."

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