What is this?? What is the story here? A network gets "hacked" or more accurately broken into by an attacker that uses a misconfigured proxy. Suprise, suprise internal corporate network security is not exactly what it should be. Stop the presses, we got the scoop of the century! A network with poor user passwords!

Script kiddie does not put his tag on the web site but media gives him the much wanted attention for being an "ethical hacker" Many defacement groups also offer their help to the sysadmin, do you also consider them to be heroic whitehat security experts ? I did not think so... The only thing "hacked" here is the media.

Who wrote the story? John Markoff ?

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