14 DAY TRIAL // The webpage of the Stanford University portal has been defaced by a hacker in an attempt to draw attention on the lax security in some parts of the website.
The deed is claimed by a hacker going under the online alias of SaHoo, the same one that modified the looks of the personal agenda page of a professor at MIT.
This time, the target was the page of Bonnie McLindon, a Stanford graduate (B.S. Computer Science) class of 2014, currently working at US-based data analysis company Palantir Technologies.
SaHoo told us via email that he is not affiliated with any hacker group and that the stunt on the MIT portal was pulled just as a friendly hack, to demonstrate that security needs to be enforced in some areas.
It appears that in the case of the Stanford page there was the same goal, as he informed us that no files have been damaged in any way.
The defacement is nothing dirty, just a message informing that SaHoo managed to break in, with the same audio background.
Originally, the page would present some details about a project on programmable shading, presenting the results of two experiments: Eggcrate Mattress and Tea and Donuts. All the information on the page seems to be from two years ago.