[HIB]Hackers vandalise 200 web sites, cripple 150

The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week. In the largest single attack, a hacker gained administrative access to the Direct Admin server management system used by a hosting provider, who Computerworld Australia will not name, and suspended 159 accounts rendering their web sites inaccessible to the public. The suspension notification page was then defaced with the hackers’ moniker and religious propaganda. The hack was launched through a flaw created after an automatic patch of the admin system failed to complete.

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