Trond Andresen
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Below is further information concerning the sabotage of GreenNet. There is
a serious possibility that the target may have been LabourNet. We have by
far the highest hit rate on GreenNet and they believe entry to the system
was made via our site.
It may be totally unconnected, but we have recently received abusive mail
telling us to "keep out of our affairs" with regards to the attack on
Australian dockers. LabourNet has a wide readership from portworkers around
the world who look to it for news about the industry and we have been in
the forefront of reporting developments concerning the Australian docks.
The hacking of GreenNet has prevented us from reporting the present major
confrontation or even being able to inform many of our web site readers why
we aren't able to.
Other labour web sites should be on their guard. We are informed that
online web forums can be particularly vulnerable as a way of hacking into
web sites.
Chris Bailey
LabourNet
http://www.labournet.org.uk
>Intruders broke into the GreenNet system on Wednesday 1st April 1998. The
>hackers did serious damage to our system files and to prevent furtherdamage
>we turned the system off later that day.
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>We have since discovered that they entered GreenNet via the WWW serversome
>weeks before the attack and uploaded programs which allowed them to crack
>passwords on the system. It also seems that they were responsible for the
>increased congestion and use of our leased line and WWW server. This was not
>detectable at the time as our hardware did not allow in-depth analysis of usage.