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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...

Hackers cripple al-Jazeera sites The site was briefly hijacked by US hackers The websites of the Arabic television news channel Al Jazeera have come under electronic attack from hackers. Some visitors to the site were diverted to a pornography site, while others found a page with an American flag and the message "Let Freedom Ring". The Arabic and English-language sites of al-Jazeera have suffered internet disruptions since the television station showed pictures of dead and captive American soldiers in Iraq. The TV channel has described the electronic onslaught as a vicious attack on the freedom of the press. Flood of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U.S. flag and the message "Let Freedom Ring." The hackers, calling themselves the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia," briefly hijacked Internet traffic destined for Al-Jazeera's Web site and redirected it to a different Web page on computers operated by Networld Connections Inc., an Internet provider in Salt Lake City. The likely hacking technique, called "DNS poisoning," fools so-called domain name servers across the Internet and is relatively difficult to defend against. Internet records show the Web directories sending traffic to Al-Jazeera's site...

Al-Jazeera Web site faces continued hacker attacks Reuters, 03.27.03, 11:50 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hacker attacks continued to plague the Web site of Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera on Thursday, as cyber-vandals replaced the news site with a stars-and-stripes logo saying "Let Freedom Ring". Both the Arabic site, at (http://www.aljazeera.net), and the English-language version at (http://english.aljazeera.net) could not be accessed Thursday. Users who tried to log onto the site found a message that read, "Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia" beneath a logo containing the U.S. flag. "This broadcast was brought to you by: Freedom Cyber Force Militia,"...

<p>The disturbing image of a dead child appeared Tuesday on dozens of Web sites of U.S. and British companies, becoming the latest example of an escalating barrage of anti-war Internet "hacktivism."</p> <p>Since the war's start, several thousand Web sites have been defaced with anti-war images and slogans, Internet security experts say.</p>

On Tuesday, March 25, the PHP section of Linux and Main was repeatedly defaced by pro-Saddam Hussein crackers. They put up an obscenity-filled page, replete with such things as an American flag with a swastika where the stars belong.

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>