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Security Watch: Squatters Jumping Claims To Domain NamesDATE: 24-JUL-2006 Team Evil vs. IsraelIn early July 2006, as hostilities flared up between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza strip, an attack was initiated on servers belonging to Israeli and pro-Israeli organizations by a Moroccan hacking group named "Team Evil."A forensic analysis by Beyond Security's beSIRT team succeeded in disrupting the servers and defacing some of them. The attack shows that best practices are often crucial in protecting critical resources.The major opening for Team Evil was the fact that Internet-facing applications on the servers were not kept up to date with the most recent security patches. This gave the attackers publicly-known avenues for attack.In some cases, applications that were compromised were run with excessive privileges, with the result that other parts of the system were vulnerable.
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