A hacker going with the handle of s13doeL has hacked and defaced 11 sub-domains of Australia’s University of New South Wales. The hacker seems to found some kind of vulnerability on university’s server, allowing him to get it and hacked only the sub-domains but not the main domain.
The hacked sub-domains belong to different departments and labs of the university such as Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, Neilan Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Diversity, Water Information System for the Environment, The Australian Wetlands & Rivers Centre (AWRC), School of Computer Science and Engineering, Community Eye Health Program, Test domain of Physics Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Workshop & Conferences on Science program and sub-domain of Department of Psychology.
The hacker uploaded his deface page in .txt format with a simple note of s13doeL was Here on all of the hacked websites but the reason for targeting site or the origin of s13doeL is unknown.
The links of targeted sites:
www.oceanography.unsw.edu.au
www.neilanlab.unsw.edu.au/
www.wise.unsw.edu.au/
www.wetrivers.unsw.edu.au/
www.fcu.science.unsw.edu.au
www.communityeyehealth.unsw.edu.au
www.test7.science.unsw.edu.au
www.materialstest.science.unsw.edu.au
www.conferences.science.unsw.edu.au
www.materials.unsw.edu.au
www.choicetask.psy.unsw.edu.au
The Mirrors of hacked websites:
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155613
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155615
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155618
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155619
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155622
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155623
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155625
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155628
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155633
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155635
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19155612
At the time of publishing this article, all 11 sub-domains were down and displaying Site Under Maintenance message.
