

| Subject: | Re: Vanagon.com is Hacked!!! |
| From: | Carrington, Tom |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:47:25 -0500 |
Hi David, I have no admin privledges on the www.vanagon.com site. Ron and possibly Brent are the 2 people that I know of that can fix the site. :( TomC -----Original Message----- From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:02 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Vanagon.com is Hacked!!! At 08:45 AM 12/13/2000, Chris Smith wrote: >Wow.. I've seen some kiddie hacks and this is not one of them. The web >site had a major security hole and someone walked right up and said >"boo". We were lucky. The hack came from over-seas, and as such would >require the State Department to get involved for any though of >prosecution. Since the damage was really tiny, this would not likely happen. On top of which the intruder has posted an apology, a promise to fix the site tomorrow, and the address of the proper Vanagon root page (http://www.vanagon.com/indexoriginal.html). Clearly a young man, judgment perhaps a bit shaky, but definitely not one of the bad guys. d ps -- is Tom out of town? David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation"
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