Hackers deface NASA Website on day of Crash

[Mr. Black]

Hackers deface numerous NASA web servers on day of Space Shuttle Disaster

Trippin Smurfs picked the wrong time to deface NASA

On a day of national tragedy, with the folks at NASA in grief at the lost of the space shuttle Columbia and the seven astronauts onboard, a hacking group known as Trippin Smurfs decided to defaced a number of NASA web servers with a rant about Iraq....

http://maggiore.jpl.nasa.gov

http://arezzo.jpl.nasa.gov

http://palermo.jpl.nasa.gov

http://pisa.jpl.nasa.gov

http://roma.jpl.nasa.gov

http://sondrio.jpl.nasa.gov

http://borgo.jpl.nasa.gov

http://como.jpl.nasa.gov

http://urbino.jpl.nasa.gov

Suffice to say that their timing was in extremely poor taste and will probably result in NASA's JPL security dudes putting in some overtime to catch the Trippin Smurfs. Given the tragedy that unfolded today over the skies of Texas, I don't think there is a court in the land that would have much sympathy for the hackers when sentencing. Tip of the hat and thanks to our friends who wrote to us about this poorly timed multiple web site defacement.

source: csNews and BinkXP

(http://www.securitynewsportal.com/cgi-bin/cgi-script/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=JanW%2edb&command=viewone&id=22&op=t)

[Nautica]

Yeah thats just wrong, NASA is a good company/gov org

why dont these "hackers" hack into the riaa more, instead of NASA which has done nothing bad other then pollute hundreds of billions of cubic feet of air with toxic fuel.

[CarbonKnight]

It's very possible they cracked it on the same day by coincidence. I mean the cracking probably took a little while to pull off, as it's very unlikely the password was just "sex" or "god".

[Cowpie]

But with a name like Trippin Smurfs, they deserve to get caught ;)