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The Brazilian Connection: Brazilian Defacement Groups Stake their Claim

The Brazilian Connection: Brazilian Defacement Groups Stake their Claim (PDF, 2.25MB)Published: 16 Jul, 2001
Created by:
Michael Poor

While the United States is preoccupied with China and Russia as its greatest cyber-enemies, countries like Brazil go almost unnoticed. However, last year the U.S. was forced to take notice when a Brazilian group known as Inferno.BR broke into NASA and NATO. This paper takes look at three separate Brazilian hacker groups, two of whom were interviewed by the author of this paper.