German IT expert hacks NSA homepage

TheLocal.de ^ | 02 May 2014 16:27 GMT+02:00 | (DPA/The Local)

[Olog-hai]

A computer expert from eastern Germany claims to have hacked the homepage of the US National Security Agency (NSA), leaving a message on the site for American security experts.

Matthias Ungethüm from Saxony said on Friday he had replaced the NSA slogan “Codebreakers and Codemakers” with the German phrase “Durchleuchten Sie Ihre Homepage”—“Examine your homepage" on the website of America’s security agency. …

[Nachum]

A gift from Merkel. Guess they didn’t bury the hatchet after all.

[Olog-hai]

Well, maybe the hatchet’s buried, but they had the broadsword ready to take a swing or two.

[Drago]

Not sure when this happened, but it looks normal right now:
http://www.nsa.gov

[FredZarguna]

It proves nothing. By the "hackers" own admission he used a cross-site scripting vulnerability, which many users would not be susceptible to [I wouldn't, nor would most IT professionals] and as a matter of fact it's a non-persistent injection attack that many users would not even see, depending on what server path they use to reach the NSA.

All he's succeeded in doing is getting the NSA's attention. Which is not really a good idea.

[exDemMom]

I don’t see that phrase on the NSA website.

However, I do see that the cryptologic museum is having an open house on the 17th. That looks interesting.