[CS-FSLUG] Novell Sites Hacked

[Don Parris]

Jukka wrote:
> 2005/10/4, Don Parris <evangelinux at matheteuo.org>:
> 
>>Fred A. Miller wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 03 October 2005 7:06 pm, Don Parris wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Political hackers got Novell/SUSE, if only briefly:
>>>>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11334
>>>
>>>
>>>No, they didn't. They briefly defaced www.opensuse.org, but it wasn't hacked.
>>>
>>>Fred
>>>
>>
>>O.k., just to prove I'm not a real hacker, let me ask my dumb question:
>>Don't you have to hack a server in order to deface it?  Or is it because the
>>goofballs managed to *merely* deface the website, rather than actually get
>>into the software packages, that it's not considered "hacking" proper?
>>
>>Please enlighten me.
>>
>>Don
>>
> 
> 
> My purpose was to point that only OpenSuse's documentation was
> hacked/defaced, because headline: "Political hackers got Novell/SUSE"
> gives an impression that whole project (including software
> downloads/patches etc.) was in danger. Hacked or defaced - I am not
> sure which term is more accurate. :)
> 
> Blessings,
> Jukka
> 

I can go along with that. ;-)  I was curious why Fred differentiates between 
hacking & defacing.  Seems to me it would be difficult to deface a site if 
you didn't hack the server (at least the webserver).  They may not have 
gotten to the other areas of the server, which could also have had tighter 
security.  I can see that.  Anyway, I should probably apoligize for the 
misleading headline.

Blessings,
Don