Deceptive Duo Cyberattack: Gartner Site Hacked Without Warning

Deceptive Duo Hacks Gartner: An Urgent Call for Enhanced Security

May 02, 2002 •

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In what has now become almost a daily occurence, the Deceptive Duo takes out another high-profile web site. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. sent in comments on their most recent defacement. "Many recent cyberattacks could have been avoided if enterprises were more focused on their security efforts, but users seem not to learn from their mistakes" these words were just pronounced by Richard Mogull, research director for the famous Gartner Institute.. . . In what has now become almost a daily occurence, the Deceptive Duo takes out another high-profile web site. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. sent in comments on their most recent defacement. "Many recent cyberattacks could have been avoided if enterprises were more focused on their security efforts, but users seem not to learn from their mistakes" these words were just pronounced by Richard Mogull, research director for the famous Gartner Institute.

What better challenge for the Deceptive Duo, the patriot hacker group that since a week is putting under pressure American servers to demonstrate their weakness. After FAA, a bunch of banks, the Sandia Labs, Nasa and some airlines websites, this was the time of the Gartner Institute. The attacked website mirror can be found at Gartner recently declared that 'until 2005 some 90% of cyberattacks will continue to exploit known security flaws for which a patch is available or a preventive measure known'.

In fact this theory was validated by The Deceptive Duo using a known Netbios Brute Force attack method which allowed them to hack Gartner's servers in a mere 45 minutes (informations released by the same Duo).

When next time Richard Mogull will publish a research on how many Americans are wearing safety belts while driving, Zone-H hopes that he will be classifiable in the "fastening" category...