I’m not sure what they’re investigating, but the FBI probably isn’t looking too hard for the person who defaced Lieberman’s website. The hacker has already been found.
Zone-h.org spoke on August 10th with a Turkish hacker who admitted to defacing Lieberman’s site. Was this Turkish hacker working for Ned Lamont? Had he been enlisted by legions of bloggers to ruin Lieberman’s chances? Not even close. Here’s what Roberto Preatoni discovered:
We tried to contact the attacker who disclosed that he indeed attacked Senator Joe Lieberman’s website and defaced it, but being a Turkish guy, he really didn’t have a clue about who Senator Joe Lieberman was. Being Muslim we asked him if his attack was anyway politically motivated and the answer was: “I did it just for fun”.
Being also asked if he was the coordinator of the Denial of Service attacks which have been effecting Senator Joe Lieberman’s site he declared that what he did was just to deface the site, then moving to the next target. ”
Did you get that last bit? The hacker admitted to defacing the site, but simply moved on to the next vulnerable site in his list. As I reported before, this was no Denial of Service attack.
I can vouch for the risks that unpatched sites running Joomla! run. After an automated scan of my server’s pages on August 20th looking for mentions of Joomla! and the ext_calendar module (both terms would be found in that article), a computer based in Turkey attempted to load a hack onto my system. Fortunately, I’m not running Joomla!, and it certainly backs up the story that this was simply a random incident and Lieberman’s site was defaced along with probably hundreds or thousands of others that day.