Last Thursday Silicon.com found out that Apple's
Korean online store was hacked. The hacking was done by a dude going by the name 'Dinam.' He claims to be Turkish, but
there is no way to confirm that. It seems he gained administrative control over the webserver (which was running
Apache) that serves up the Apple store (in Korea) and he went ahead and defaced the website.Korean Apple online store defaced
Last Thursday Silicon.com found out that Apple's
Korean online store was hacked. The hacking was done by a dude going by the name 'Dinam.' He claims to be Turkish, but
there is no way to confirm that. It seems he gained administrative control over the webserver (which was running
Apache) that serves up the Apple store (in Korea) and he went ahead and defaced the website.
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5-03-2006 @ 6:47PM
brady said...
what a jerk!
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5-03-2006 @ 7:13PM
Chris said...
Web-site hacks are common and frequently are simply the result of poorly configured web scripts, rather than a deeper security issue.
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5-03-2006 @ 7:22PM
Adu said...
Maybe he was mad since Turkey doesn't have its own Apple store?
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5-03-2006 @ 7:24PM
carl said...
ok web sites hack common mayb, but on a major web site?
and here is what worries me.. see i forget what the group is called, but basicaly any web site that offers Visa as a way to buy stuff, they have to go through a very rigiorous testing to see if they can be hacked, i would assume apple passed and/or changed it..yet this hacker still got in.....
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5-03-2006 @ 7:27PM
Robert said...
Maybe he just wanted to make a name for himself. Apparently he succeeded thanks to sites such as this one.
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5-03-2006 @ 8:03PM
CajunLuke said...
Carl:
Visa probably only cares about the purchasing stuff on a secure server.
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5-03-2006 @ 8:24PM
dimwell said...
This is not a "hack". It's a break-in by a vandal.
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5-03-2006 @ 9:13PM
Daniel D said...
its a shame their websites arn't as hackproof has their computers
ZING!!
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5-03-2006 @ 9:33PM
mattco said...
no its a hack
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5-04-2006 @ 1:41AM
bryan said...
Does anyone have a screenshot of this?
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5-04-2006 @ 3:33AM
Douglas F Shearer said...
It was only Apple's Korean Mail subdomain that was defaced. Screenshot of it can be seen here....
http://www.zone-h.org/defacements/mirror/id=3738607/
(No idea if we can add links here, sorry for the cut/paste inconvenience)
Dougal.
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5-04-2006 @ 10:22AM
Arnoz said...
Really useful and clever... What a jerk!
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5-04-2006 @ 12:55PM
Ryan said...
carl,
I have gone though that so called "visa compliance" testing for a large retail frim; it's a freaking joke that amounts to not much more than a portscan on the ip address that there site detects you comming from, which is usualy just your corprate firewall, no ports open there, duh. And a 20ish page questionier asking quetions like "do you leave your admin password written down un securely, yes or no".
Don't take faith in these 'tests', a real security audit is nothing like this and costs -tons- of $$ that most companies will not pay for.
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5-04-2006 @ 2:37PM
GadgetTV said...
#12 is right on the visa cert's. I think its called cisp or something like that. Helped a couple of sites with it last year.
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