Hacker breaks into 49 House sites, insults Obama

[Ghost in the Machine]

Hacker breaks into 49 House sites, insults Obama
Posted: Jan 28, 2010 12:19 PM EST
Updated: Jan 29, 2010 12:59 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) - A hacker broke into 49 House Web sites of both political parties to post a crude attack on President Barack Obama after his State of the Union address.

Jeff Ventura, spokesman for the House chief administrative officer, said the sites were managed by a private vendor - GovTrends of Alexandria, Va.

Most House Web sites are managed totally by House technicians but individual offices are permitted to contract with a third party to manage new features and updates.

Ventura says GovTrends let its guard down while performing an update, allowing the hacker to penetrate sites of individual members and committees overnight.

The attacker used an obscenity in referring to the president, who spoke from the House chamber Wednesday night.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/global/story.asp?s=11895405

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. and meanwhile internet voting is being promoted

for overseas troops, with some states already allowing it.

Anything can be hacked. An internet site or election is an open target to any
hacker in the entire world.

Gov sites, DOD sites etc get hacked by all sorts.

Google "computer criminal" or "cyber warfare"

[obliviously]

3. Voting needs to be done on paper period!

[SlingBlade]

2. Where's Jim DeMint ?

[Orangepeel]

8. I'd be surprised if Jim DeMint can even turn on a computer. n/t

[Arkana]

12. Not after he done stuck his pecker in the CD-ROM drive

when he was watchin' his po-nog-ra-phy. Hurt like a sumbitch.

[Lasher]

4. Everything is always done best in the private sector.

Everybody knows that.

[lib_wit_it]

5. Where are all the fucking liberal hackers?? Slackers!

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. The teabuggers are out on bail

Just sayin . . .

[Monk06]

7. O' Keefe is in his dad's basement jerking off in front of the computer. Check there. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. LOL

[NecklyTyler]

9. DieBold programmers just showin' off

[applegrove]

11. So do the Democrats now have to now spend $$$ upgrading the security of their sites

rather than on getting reelected.