At 7:30pm last night, the Saipan Tribune discovered what appeared to be a breach in the security of the Saipan.com homepage when the familiar picture page with logos and descriptions of Saipan were replaced with a note that appeared to be written in Portuguese.<\/p>\n
The Saipan Tribune consulted Saipan resident Herb Soll for his knowledge of the Portuguese language, and he offered an approximate translation of the image, as follows:<\/p>\n
Dear Santa Claus:<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been well behaved, and I haven\u2019t interfered with any server and I was good to all of my friends. I would like if possible for you to send me many administrators with open servers that use incompetent scripts on the net.<\/p>\n
With an embrace,<\/p>\n
From: Overkill<\/p>\n
Soll said that, while he is not familiar with all the jargon hackers use for the Internet, he gets the gist of the letter.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as I can see, it\u2019s from a hacker asking for a bunch of server administrators who are foolish and who use scripts for the net. The direct translation I can\u2019t really make clear, but that they are all incompetent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Administrator for Saipan.com Dan Camacho was unavailable for comment, but John Blas from the Guam-based Tech Support for the site said that, while he hasn\u2019t received any calls about the site\u2019s difficulties prior to that of the Saipan Tribune, he believes it\u2019s possible that the security of the site has been compromised.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first I\u2019ve found out. The first time I checked that website was this morning. \u2026Tagaman was up and running, but it looks like the Saipan.com domain\u2026has been breached, the security has been breached. I\u2019m not too sure what\u2019s been going on there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As of 8pm last night, Blas said that he and one of his coworkers were trying to contact both Camacho and the Guam administrator, but that their attempts were unsuccessful. While he was unable to officially say that site was under attack, Blas said that he was just as surprised to see the state of the Saipan.com homepage and eager to find the solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me that\u2019s what it looks like. I don\u2019t know if Dan put that up there on purpose or not, but I can\u2019t say yes or no. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. I wish I did. I\u2019m trying to find out what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Blas said that while the specifics weren\u2019t revealed to him, he had heard mention of the Saipan site when he started his shift.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew of issues earlier this morning when they said that there was a problem with some of our servers on Saipan, but I don\u2019t know if they meant that this was part of it\u2026so right when I got in they said that there were some issues with Saipan, but I didn\u2019t know that this was one of them. I\u2019m not too sure of when this started coming up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
At press time it was still unknown whether Saipan.com\u2019s e-mail accounts were affected by the attack, but Blas said that the chances are unlikely due to the added security measures for the TagaMail system.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe it should because that\u2019s just the home page. It\u2019s not the TagaMail server, which should be a lot more secure than just the web server,\u201d said Blas.<\/p>\n
According to messages the hacker posts on the affected websites, BIOS stands for Brazilians Intruders Of System. They identify themselves individually as evolui and Overkill_.<\/p>\n
Besides the note, the Saipan.com webpage also displays the phrase \u201cBIOS TEAM OWNZ U. More perfect impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among other sites that BIOS Team had previously hacked into are www.wirelessforums.org, www.artmetal.com, www.virtualove.com, and sprucelake.org. These sites were found using Google and the search word \u201cOverkill_\u201d and all affected sites displayed essentially the same message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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