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What was unique about this particular attack, however, is that the attackers left a business card. On the defaced home page, in addition to the name of their organization (and, admittedly, “Unknown Core” is a name with some irony given that they came after Harvard right in the middle of heated debate surrounding our curricular review), they left their own pseudonyms: our assailants were “esqu1n4”, “_TGm_”, “Stealh”, and the mysterious “S.” They also...
...found a hole in the code behind the web page, a way to run programs on HCS’s server. He made quick work of defacing our home page, replacing it with a spartan battle flag (still visible online at http://hcs.harvard.edu/hackedindex.shtml) announcing that “Unknown Core Own3d Harvard.” “Brazil rlz,” the attackers noted...
...unapologetic, perfectly reasonable. Unknown Core was, he asserted, helping HCS: they had found a vulnerability in our server and had pointed it out to us while doing only a very small amount of easily repairable damage. Wasn’t this better, he asked, than had some other more malicious hacker come along and tried to use the security breach to more nefarious ends? He wasn’t interested in my suggestion that he might have emailed us instead. He didn’t seem bothered by my claim he was just pointing out holes in Swiss Cheese anyway...
...either of these people. It’s rare, I imagine, that owners of vandalized property get to question the vandals, and rarer still that when they do the only power they possess is the ability to ask nicely for reprieve. I expect that “Unknown Core” won’t bother us anymore—ultimately, they (college students themselves, if I understood them correctly) sympathized with our frustrations. And if we’re ever attacked by someone with more political intentions, I suppose I do have an answer for them if all else...
...cause of the fire is currently unknown, Warnum said...