Keywords
Hacked
Around 9:30 A.M. Pacific time Friday an internal account
with access to keyword KM was compromised by BMB. Keyword
KM allows internal AOL employees to edit keywords and
is one of the more secure areas on AOL. However, when
BMB signed on the compromised internal account he had
full access to edit, create, and delete keywords.
BMB hacked over 100 keywords including @LocalCL, ^52you,
AOL, AOL-Files, AOLHelp, BMB, Buddy, Buddyview, CLHQ,
FormTest, Help, MSF, News, and OpsSecJV. Keywords CLHQ,
MSF, ^52you, and OpsSecJV, all staff keywords, redirected
to Viowatch's Active X site. Keyword @LocalCL was changed
to redirect to Viowatch's main site, http://www.3char.org/~viowatch.
Keywords Abcerase and FormTest, were unviewruled as
well. Keyword Tom linked to private room Tom, and keyword
Tom Hax0rs redirected to to an unviewruled form in the
COSTeam area (Session central). The rest, which include
keywords AOL, AOL-Files, AOLHelp, BMB, Buddy, BuddyView,
Help, News, and Problems linked to www.aol-files.com
which contributed to the tremendous increase in hits
the site received between 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Friday afternoon.
All of the keywords were repaired soon after BMB was
bumped off of the compromised account.
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