UN website hacked by protesters against USA and 'Ysrail'
The official website of the United Nations got hacked Sunday night, and was displaying a message protesting US and Israeli policies in the Middle East.
Some sections of the site, including those reserved to statements by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, showed a message, repeated several times, that read: showed a message, repeated several times, that read: "Hacked By kerem125 M0sted and Gsy That is CyberProtest Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war."
Previous attacks attributed to the hackers found on other websites suggested that at least one of them was Turkish.
"The pirate message disappeared from the UN website, www.un.org, at about 9.15am (9.15pm AEST)," the Herald Sun reports.
According to the Times Online, the United Nations will be reviewing its security procedures, as a result of the hacking.
Excerpts from Times Online article:
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Today a website run by one of the group, M0sted, had links to a number of other CyberProtest attacks, including on the sites of the car-makers Toyota and Nissan, and Harvard University.
'M0sted' said that CyberProtest's objective was to spread the message "that the powerful have no right to oppress the powerless."
The website of another CyberProtest member, 'Eno7', who described him or herself as an 'IT security expert', said that the group has been founded in response to the Israeli military offensive against Lebanon last year.
"The chief architects of this protest are myself, Eno7 from Turkey, and the byond hackers team from Chile. We expanded our efforts as nine other countries joined us afterwards,” it said.
Cyber Protest did not intend to disrupt the operation of its victims' websites, "only to give a message against war," Eno7 said.
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(with wire reports)
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