Posted on 03/28/2003 8:30:38 PM PST by veronica
A MUSLIM militant group is believed to have hacked into the Hereford Diocese web-site and left pictures of dead and wounded children.
Four video stills, two showing fatally injured children, possibly taken from Middle East TV war coverage, appeared on the site on Monday afternoon.
Anyone visiting the church web-site would have found themselves on the Muslim Allah Akbar page, which means `Allah is the greatest'.
Diocese director of communications, Anni Holden, said she presumed a militant Muslim Arab organisation was behind the sabotage.
"It was very dramatic. The page said Allah Akbar and there was also a line of text that said something like `it's a shame that so much greed has led to this happening'. There were just these four pictures which appeared to have been taken off Al Jazeera TV." Service provider Kington's KC3 said the web-site was probably amongst thousands world-wide to have fallen foul of a robot that would have replaced index pages. They had restored the diocese site by early evening.
Office manager, Peter Loughran, said: "All the ones (church sites) that we host with a company in London were hit. We think a robot went out throughout the world looking for servers that have a weakness and changed sites."
It was by coincidence at around 3.30pm on Monday, when he was looking at the company's sites, he found the religious ones had been redirected to the Allah Akbar web page.
"We don't know who did it. What's of concern is that somebody managed to get into a server. The page was only available for about two hours and the Hereford Diocese were the only people to have noticed it," he said.
Anni, who is responsible for writing the web-site, said she will be asking KC3 to make sure it doesn't happen again and condemned the hackers.
As it so happens, Al-Jizzum's site was hacked, and they called it "a vicious, frontal assault on freedom of speech..."
QED, your point has already been made...
the infowarrior
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