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Key Arab news station knocked offline 13:47 24 March 03 NewScientist.com news service The Arabic satellite television channel Al Jazeera, which on Sunday broadcast controversial footage of US soldiers captured by Iraqi forces, has blamed computer hackers for crashing its online news service on Monday. The station's web site, which carried still images of the footage, was inaccessible on Monday morning. A spokeswoman for Al Jazeera told New Scientist: "We have a problem. I believe there are some hackers, some attack, but I don't know exactly." The spokeswoman said an attack could have been prompted by the film broadcast by...

By PETER SVENSSON The Associated Press Tuesday, March 25, 2003; 4:52 PM Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said. The newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday and posted images of the corpses of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack. Ayman Arrashid, Internet system administrator at the Horizons Media and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began Tuesday morning local time. Nabil Hegazi, assistant to the managing editor of...

Rush reports that Hackers have taken down the Al Jazeera Website . . . 3-24-03, start of 2nd hour of Rush Limbaugh

War protestors go on hacking rampage By Iain Thomson [21-03-2003] Ganda virus just the start, warns expert As the first impacts of the Ganda worm, which plays on curiosity for news about the Iraq invasion, begin to be felt, online observers have also noted a surge of anti-war hacking. In the 48 hours before the invasion of Iraq just over 200 websites were attacked and defaced, but in the following 24 hours around 1,000 were targeted, predominately by anti-war protestors. Sites successfully breached include those belonging to the US Navy and US National Centre for Agricultural Utilization Research. "This...

<p>LONDON, March 21 -- As bombs continue to fall in Iraq, protesters and patriotic hackers alike have stepped up their war of words on the Internet, defacing hundreds of U.S. and UK corporate and government Web sites, a security expert said on Friday.</p>

Has anybody else had this happen? When I log onto the internet, I am used to seeing the MSN Home page. At least up until last night. Now what I get is some garbage called "Indian Snakes". I know that I did nothing to change my opening page to the 'net. I provided the link ( I think :-)).

A controversial American website that pokes fun at the French and Germans has been brought down by hackers. Francestinks.com and Germanystinks.com has been deluged with emails from German cyber saboteurs, the site says. Shortly before Friday's cyber attack, the website's creator received a warning that he would be shown "what happens when you post a nationalist site like this on the Internet", Fox News reported. "Apparently (the hacker) was very sophisticated," creator 'Yankee Doodle' said. "People at the server outfit said they had never seen one that sophisticated before." The website has become cult viewing across America after France and...

AUSTIN -- Computer hackers have obtained the names and Social Security numbers of about 59,000 current and former students, faculty members and staff at the University of Texas at Austin in one of the largest cases of potential identity theft ever reported. Authorities do not know whether the information has been put to illegal uses such as obtaining credit cards or withdrawing money from financial accounts. Law enforcement officials were expected to obtain and execute search warrants late today in Austin and Houston at homes where computers are thought to have been used in the cyberspace break-in. UT officials suspect...

My Iraqi Friends, Supporters and "Enemies". Saddam has dismantled 10 of his 200 missiles and has shown the weapons inspectors a field of buried rusty missiles. This is good news. But can the "Butcher of Baghdad" really be trusted to keep the peace? Must the US people intervene to dismantle his regime? Can the Iraqi people install their own government that will work in a peaceful manner for the good of their own people? The communist regime fell because of their disregard for the welfare of their own people - must Saddam fall also for the same reason? I wish...

I received a call from my credit union yesterday to inform me that a company I do business with (catalog company???) notified them that their data base was hacked into and my name came up as one whose credit card info was compromised. I was given the phone number of the security department of MasterCard, who was very helpful in reviewing my account to make sure that there were no unknown charges to my card yet. Then they immediately closed the account and promised new cards in 7-10 days. Really no hassle other than having to get another credit card....

<p>Using a combination of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the personal information of AOL's 35 million users.</p> <p>The most recent exploit, launched last week, gave a hacker full access to Merlin, AOL's latest customer database application. As a security measure, Merlin runs only on AOL's internal network, but savvy hackers have found a way to break in.</p>

WASHINGTON, Feb 12, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center warned that growing tensions between the United States and Iraq could lead to an increase in global computer hacking activities on both sides. "Regardless of the motivation, the NIPC reiterates such activity is illegal and punishable as a felony," the agency warned Wednesday on its Web site. "The U.S. government does not condone so-called 'patriot hacking' on its behalf. "Further, even 'patriotic hackers' can be fooled into launching attacks against their own interests by exploiting malicious code that purports to attack the other side...

CORPORATE security is an illusion. So is personal financial privacy. I should know; I spent five years of my life in federal prison for proving it. A recent survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI found that 90 percent of U.S. companies responding had detected security breaches during the preceding year. Many companies believe that they can protect their information and networks from the bad guys by acquiring security technologies such as fire-walls, anti-virus software and biometric authentication systems. But while it's essential to use technology to prevent and detect hackers, it is naive to rely on technology...

<p>Some Bank of America ATMs were still out Monday, primarily in the Southeast, a bank spokesman said. And analysts blamed a dip in South Korea's stock market on the worm taking down most Internet connections in the country over the weekend.</p>

Nation Suffers from Unprecedented Nationwide Internet Shutdown    Seoul, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- Internet services were shut down nationwide for hours Saturday afternoon in an apparent cyber terror committed by hackers.    It is the first time that the country's wired and mobile Internet services were shut down nationwide, although some Internet service firms have suffered from malfunctions in separate cases, according to industry sources.

<p>A notorious computer hacker has threatened to launch the most destructive computer virus the Internet has seen if the United States invades Iraq.</p> <p>Vladimor "Melhacker" Chamlkovic, 23, a Malaysia-based computer-geek who named a previous virus after Osama bin Laden, told The Post he has developed a new super virus.</p>

<p>You see, Reid already has a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Anzar High School in San Juan Bautista, California. So to leave his mark, he decided to lower his grades to a 1.9 GPA -- a meager D+.</p> <p>"I couldn't do what most people would want to do when they hack into the school's computer," Reid said. "So I thought it would be funny to do the opposite."</p>

Less than 24 hours after plans were unveiled to build the Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock, Ark., the project had come under attack by defenders of the ex-president who attempted to disrupt its fundraising operation. Staff at the CCL report the cyber-Clintonistas have emailed at least 13 separate computer viruses to their Web site in a blitzkrieg effort to shut it down. "If you understand the Clintons, you just know they will do virtually anything to stop this Counter Library," CCL co-founder, former Congressman John LeBoutillier told NewsMax, before vowing not to let the cyber-attack disrupt operations. In anticipation...

House considers jailing hackers for life By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 13, 2002, 5:57 PM PT WASHINGTON--A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison.

Hussein`s Email Is Hacked NOVEMBER 01, 2002 23:04 by Ki-Tae Kwon (kkt@donga.com) The Iraqi Government opens the direct email address (press@uruklink.net) to the President Sadam Hussein. The reporters of the ‘Wired Dot Com’ of America hacked that email box. It contained shocking contents. Since Hussein`s email is managed by the Iraqi national Internet service provider, the Western businessmen believed that their secrets were secured and proposed many different things that are contrary to their national interests and justice. One of the shocking mails was a proposal by a businessman who called himself as a bio-chemical expert to sell bio-chemical weapons...