Hackers hit Hizbullah website
By Leila Hatoum
Special to The Daily Star
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
BEIRUT: Visitors to Hizbullah's website were surprised Monday to find themselves entering an adult site instead of Hizbullah's normal web page that is dedicated to the resistance.
The site www.hizbullah.org, was apparently attacked by hackers, who replaced the page with another one dedicated to adults - or, in other words, a "porn site."
As of late Monday, the opening page read: "You are about to enter an adult site, click here to enter."
A source working closely with Hizbullah's internet team said that they "had been getting an error message when trying to enter the page."
When asked if hackers could have caused the problems, the source said "most probably not," adding that the internet team would look into the matter.
In a separate development on Monday, Foreign Minister Jean Obeid said that Al-Manar television station had the right to express its opinion freely.
He was referring to recent efforts by a French government agency to prevent the broadcast of the Hizbullah station via satellite in France
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Really? So do Islamic militant websites often get redirected to porn by accident?
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"As of late Monday, the opening page read: "You are about to enter an adult site, click here to enter."
A source working closely with Hizbullah's internet team said that they "had been getting an error message when trying to enter the page."
When asked if hackers could have caused the problems, the source said "most probably not," adding that the internet team would look into the matter."
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "When asked if hackers could have caused the problems, the source said "most probably not," adding that the internet team would look into the matter."
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "... "When asked if hackers could have caused the problems, the source said "most probably not," ..."