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For the 7th time in about 6 months, the RIAA.org (Recording Industry Association of America) website has been hacked into and defaced. Under the "News" heading on their page, the regular news was replaced with a text message lambasting the RIAA for, "(wanting) to hack Filesharing Users / Servers," and suggesting that the RIAA figure out how to secure their own server. It was also noted that the Admin account was deactivated. As well, an e-mail address at mail.ru, a Russian e-mail service, was listed as a contact.
The most painful part of the defacement for the RIAA, however, wasn't that message. It was the list of 5 P2P (Peer-to-Peer) free filesharing tools including links and descriptions and the words "sponsored by the www.riaa.org." The services/programs listed with descriptions included Emule, Shareaza, WinMX, KaZaA Lite and eDonkey -- with live links to download each program.
Previous defacements to the RIAA.org site have included one where anyone on the Web could submit text through an HTML form that would then show up on the RIAA's front page, and another where numerous MP3 files were listed and hosted on the RIAA's servers and available for public download.
The most painful part of the defacement for the RIAA, however, wasn't that message. It was the list of 5 P2P (Peer-to-Peer) free filesharing tools including links and descriptions and the words "sponsored by the www.riaa.org." The services/programs listed with descriptions included Emule, Shareaza, WinMX, KaZaA Lite and eDonkey -- with live links to download each program.
Previous defacements to the RIAA.org site have included one where anyone on the Web could submit text through an HTML form that would then show up on the RIAA's front page, and another where numerous MP3 files were listed and hosted on the RIAA's servers and available for public download.
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