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SecuriTeam™  Beyond Security®  SecuriTeam™ Home  Ask the Team  Mailing Lists  Advertising Info  Blogs  Black Box Testing  Vulnerability Assessment  Vulnerability Scanner SecuriTeam™ in Your Inbox   E-mail this article to a friend New vulnerability? New tool? Tell us	Hackers take over a British military satellite? 9 Apr. 1999    Summary According to Reuters, hackers have seized control over a British military satellite, issuing threats if their demands aren't met. This is begining to look like one of the biggest Net hoaxes so far. The hacker news network (HNN) claim this story to be a fake, and it seems that Reuters bought the fake story, and other news agencies caught on.   Credit: The police and the British Ministry of Defense refused to comment. Find the full story at: http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp?mode=news&doc_id=RTB28a0520rittz The Hacker News Network and some online news sites claim this story is simply a misinterpertation of the facts: http://www.hackernews.com/    Details Audit your web server for security holes - see what the hackers see. Sign up for a scan today - risk free! Reuters reports that according to "security sources" the intruders altered the course of one of four military satellites used by Britain's Ministry of Defense. The satellite's course was changed two weeks ago, and the attackers demanded money to stop interfering with the satellite.  Comments: Subject:   Date:  From:  Add new comment:  Subject:  Name/Nick/Email:          Chars Left:	All Sections Security News Unix focus Exploits Tools Windows focus Security Reviews  Related Articles Cisco BBSM Captive Portal Cross-site Scripting Cisco Unified Communications Manager Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Novell eDirectory Unauthenticated Access to SOAP Interface Call of Duty Denial of Service Wonderware SuiteLink Denial of Service Vulnerability WebMod Multiple Vulnerabilities IAX2 Incomplete 3-Way Handshake (Spoofing) Multiple Vendor OpenOffice Vulnerabilities Apple Safari WebKit PCRE Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability Cisco Network Admission Control Shared Secret Vulnerability ClamAV libclamav PeSpin Heap Overflow Vulnerability ClamAV libclamav PE WWPack Heap Overflow Vulnerability IBM Informix Pre-Authentication Stack Overflow Adobe Flash Player DeclareFunction2 Invalid Object Use Vulnerability HP OpenView NNM Buffer Overflow  Featured Articles Microsoft Windows I2O Filter Utility Driver (i2omgmt.sys) Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Adobe Acrobat Javascript PDF Security Feature Bypass and Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Multiple Vendor rdesktop Vulnerabilities Wonderware SuiteLink Denial of Service Vulnerability PHP Multibyte Shell Command Escaping Bypass Vulnerability Akamai Download Manager Arbitrary Program Execution Vulnerability SugarCRM Community Edition Local File Disclosure Vulnerability
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