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COMPUTERS are rare and internet access is almost nonexistent for most people in North Korea, yet the isolated communist country is suspected of training computer hackers for cyberterrorism, US and South Korean officials say. Sitting in a glass-fronted building in Seoul, Cho Kyong-won, a young South Korean who looks more like a hip youngster with long hair than the serious computer scientist that he is, considers the prospect of Pyongyang's digital warriors and concludes there is no reason to think they would be incompetent just because their country is poor. "They could be good," says Cho, 25, an cybersecurity expert...

Al-Jazeera is Now on the Air...Maybe Not Since that moment - just a few weeks ago at the time of this writing - Al-Jazeera has faced quite a struggle. Its DNS was hijacked, so that visitors to the Web site were redirected to a Web page featuring an American flag and the words "Let Freedom Ring!" It was knocked offline due to a denial of service attack. Its inital hosting company, DataPipe, dropped the site, forcing it to move to Akamai. Finally, Akamai ended its hosting contract with Al-Jazeera, without offering a clear explanation. Since then, the news site is...

Use a honeypot, go to prison? By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Posted: 17/04/2003 at 14:47 GMT Using a honeypot to detect and monitor computer intruders might put you on the working end of federal wiretapping beef, or even get you sued by the next hacker that sticks his nose in the trap, a Justice Department attorney warned Wednesday. "There are some legal issues here, and they are not necessarily trivial, and they're not necessarily easy," said Richard Salgado, senior counsel for the Department of Justice's computer crime unit, speaking at the RSA Conference here Wednesday. An increasingly popular technique for...

U.S. soldiers' group denies Chirac website attack PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. servicemen's group on Friday denied it had played any role in the taking over of a website set up by French President Jacques Chirac, who infuriated Americans with his opposition to the war in Iraq. For a while on Friday, computer users trying to find Chirac's site by typing its address www.chiracaveclafrance.net were instead led to that of the United Service Organisations (USO), which declares: "Proudly Serving The Men & Women Who Serve Our Country!" The U.S. servicemen's group however emphatically denied it was responsible, and...

Bruised by Net attack, Al-Jazeera turns to mobiles LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) - Hacked off the Internet for showing controversial images from the Iraq war, the Arab news channel al-Jazeera said on Wednesday it was launching a new service to send its news to mobile phones. The Qatar-based satellite television channel will beam news alerts in both Arabic and English to mobile phones around the world, after its Arabic and English-language Web sites were brought down by hackers. Al-Jazeera, one of the most popular news networks in the Arab world, raised the ire of the United States and Britain last...

If you logged on to Al-Jazeera late last week, you were in for quite a surprise. An American group hacked the Arab world's most popular news channel website, diverting all log-ons to a picture of an American flag with the words "Let Freedom Ring" on the bottom. These hackers were able to impersonate Al- Jazeera employees in order to gain temporary control of the network's Arab and English web sites. After that, they redirected all users who logged onto the page to their own site. The group "Freedom Cyber Force Militia" has claimed responsibility for the hacking, which was corrected...

Hack attack! Taking down criminal media sites by lulu 1:33am Sat Mar 29 '03 (Modified on 10:05am Sat Mar 29 '03) The war-makers are routinely hacking anti-war sites. Activists can, and probably should, use the same tools to bring down the criminal corporate media websites. A basic principle long embedded at the core of western legal systems is the right to use force to protect oneself, family and community from harm. Bush has gone to war to "protect" America, that's how unquestionable the right of self-protection is. But Bush fabricated an enemy. He is running a protection racket, just...

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 :-)).