Satanic Hacking Group Targets Church Sites

Newsbytes ^ | 28 Nov 200 | Brian McWilliams

[dell Arpa]

A group calling itself Hacking For Satan has vandalized 25 church Web sites in the past week, replacing their home pages with a message about Satanism.

On Tuesday, the group attacked sites of six churches in the eastern U.S., according to the Alldas defacement archive. The page created by the attackers included an image of a goat's head in a star, known as the Sigil of Baphomet, and the words "Owned by Hacking For Satan."

The defaced page also contained a list of eight statements, such as "Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence," and an e-mail address for the group at the address Godisdead.org.

Washington Post company. Rest of article here.

[dell Arpa]

Here's a mirror of one of their jobs.

[WyldKard]

The 25 sites attacked by Hacking For Satan were all running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) software.

Hmmmmmm...time to switch to Apache and/or Linix? It seems like backdoor bugs in IIS pop up like weeds...

(tries to resist the urge to say something like: But those churches were running Microsoft products, and were ALREADY owned by Satan!) *heh*

[Glenn]

It seems like backdoor bugs in IIS pop up like weeds...

The backdoors are well known and these script kiddies are just taking advantage of lazy administrators.

[dell Arpa]

LOL. The real question is, will an exorcism get their homepage back to normal?

[SeeYaBubba]

Amen. I can't believe that anyone would put a web server on the 'net running WinNT/2000/XP and IIS. You might just as well tape a "Please Hack Me" sign on the front of it. Nothing against windoze as a client, which is sadly inevitable, but it doesn't belong on the server.

SeeYaBubba

Writing from an XP Laptop on a wireless LAN BEHIND a firewall and a linux box!

[Dimensio]

Perhaps they considered BSD but were scared off by the mascot?

Anyway, I doubt that this is a "Satanic" group, it's probably some jackass of a geek with too much time on his/her hands.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Isn't it interesting that God (Diety) is dead but Satan (fallen Angel of Diety) it alive and well. The message on the website is that evil thinks clearly and good is muddled. One must believe in the first to give credence to the second. It seems that everything is good vs. evil and that we had somehow forgotten that. Evil is lack of discipline, self indulgence and hate. Good is disciplined, concerned for others and love. Nobody could call Michael the Arch Angel a "turn the other cheek" kind of entity. So there is a balance when discipline means stamping all over evil out of concern and love for the world.

[clueless idiot]

Hate crime