[CS-FSLUG] Novell Sites Hacked

[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 12:45 am, Don Parris wrote:
> 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.

You explained it well, Don. Correct! ;)

Fred

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