Hacker war between Sweden and Turkey

Svenska Dagbladet ^ | 15 october, 2007 | Negra Efendic

[ScaniaBoy]

[Tanslation ScaniaBoy] A hacker war between Turkey and Sweden has erupted. Last week Turkish hackers attacked thousands of Swedish sites on the Internet, and this weekend Swedish hackers revenged by publishing pornographic pictures of the prophet Muhammed.

The Turkish attacks started several weeks ago. Swedish Web-hotels were attacked and thousands of home-pages were erased, and sometimes the attackers left political messages.

On Saturday the Swedish hackers hit back.

They had localised a Turkish discussion forum where some of the hackers were registred. The database with names and passwords for all the members to the site was stolen, Per Hellqvist, head of security at the IT-company Symantec, explains.

According to Mr Hellqvist, the Swedish hackers entered homepages, hotmail accounts and even msn:s. On the homepages they posted pornographic pictures of Muhammed and Atatürk.

The Swedish hackers also destroyed and sent mail. They also used msn to send messages to the friends of the people they attacked on the discussion board.

per hellqvist says that this was a much more serious attack than just gaining access to a homepage and destroy it. He says many innocent people were affected.

The Turkish attackers were not so sophisticated. They entered homepages with poor security. The Swedish attack was much more advanced.

Per Hellqvist does not want to speculate how this wil develope. He says that the Swedish attacks may feed the flames of the conflict that started after Lars Vilks moodog drawings were published.

[ScaniaBoy]

What the article did not say (surprise, surprise) was that the "political messages" were anti-US, anti-Sweden, anti-Israel, and contained death threats against Swedes in general and Lars Vilks in particular. All from the ROP.

I know I shouldn't condone the attack by the hackers, but by Jove, it feels good that at least someone is hitting back!!!!

[ShadowAce]

[Hegemony Cricket]

It’s all fun & games until somebody loses an eye...

[TChris]

LOL!

The muzzies continue to suffer from delusions of grandeur.

We R m@5t3r h@xxorz!

...uh... oops.

[weegee]

Flame War, for real...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Go get em, Swede !

[Brilliant]

What are the odds makers saying I wonder? Seems like the Swedes are probably outnumbered, but they may have more computers.

[ScaniaBoy]

It ain’t the quantity, it’s the quality...

:-)

[N3WBI3]

"per hellqvist says that this was a much more serious attack than just gaining access to a homepage and destroy it. He says many innocent people were affected."

Im sorry but in for a penny, in for a pound... Not that I condone what the Swedish hackers did but it was not less serious than what they were motivated by.

[N3WBI3]

Numbers don’t matter in this event, a single great hacker can do more damage than one hundred good hackers..

[steveo]

No doubt ‘outrage’ will soon occur.

[Redleg Duke]

Or is it the other way around?

[absolootezer0]

PWN3D!

[ari-freedom]

yes but going after Turkey isn’t exactly what we need right now when we are trying to win in iraq

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“going after Turkey isn’t exactly what we need right now”

Tell that to Nasty Pelosi!

[swain_forkbeard]

There was a time when “hackers from the Northland” would have evoked a more grisly image. Anybody ever see “The Long Ships?”

[ari-freedom]

she needs to get lost!

[CaptainK]

Pictures?

[ARE SOLE]

It's always funny until someone gets hurt and then it's just hilarous.

Faith no more

Regards

[Darksheare]

Capitulate to us or we'll rampage!