Re: Etisalat to be told to produce evidence against hacker

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Forwarded By: Berislav Kucan <bhz () net-security org>

If you are interested in how this story started out, check out some of
this news snippits from the site I'm working on:

British man penetrated into UAE System
Thursday 22 June 2000 on 2:33 PM
A Reuters report today said a British man is in custody under
suspicion for penetrating into the United Arab Emirates Internet
system (this looks blurry, we are trying to find an appropriate URL to
expand what really happened). He faces charges of damaging the
country's economy, according to local newspaper reports today.
Reuters said the 26-year-old man, a senior computer engineer in Dubai,
was arrested last week after being traced by Emirates
Telecommunications Corp.


Update on Etisalat penetration
Friday 23 June 2000 on 8:26 PM
A man arrested for allegedly hacking into Emirates Telecommunications
Corp's (Etisalat) Internet service fears he is being made a scapegoat
by the telecommunications giant for the disruptions which affected
thousands of computer users in the past two weeks.


Lee Ashurt's point of view
Sunday 2 July 2000 on 2:49 PM
Lee Ashurst accused of hacking into and sabotaging the Internet
service Etisalat, has filed a defamation suit in Dubai against them.
He has also set up a site with his opinion on the whole situation.
http://www.supportlee.4mg.com/


Legal facts
Thursday 6 July 2000 on 2:38 PM
Wired also did a report on Lee Ashurst who is accused of pentrating
into systems of Arab ISP named "Emirates Internet and Multimedia".
Article focuses mostly on legal facts of computer crime law in UAE.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37401,00.html


Ashurst files case against Etisalat
Monday 10 July 2000 on 1:27 PM
"We filed a civil suit against Etisalat to urge them to submit a copy
of their records of the alleged sabotage to court. They are still
withholding whatever evidence they have," Lee Ashurst's lawyer Habib
al-Mulla told the press.
http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,Business|24660,00.html


Etisalat to host conference about hacking
Wednesday 18 October 2000 on 2:54 AM
Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) will stage a top-level
conference starting on Saturday on ways to deter hackers. The
conference, which will be held at the Etisalat Academy in Dubai, would
attract a large number of judges, police officers, database
administrators, network managers and IT security specialists. Just to
note that 4 months ago, Lee Ashurst was arrested for allegedly hacking
into Etisalat servers.
http://www.gulf-news.com/17102000/EMIRATES/emirates9.htm


Berislav Kucan
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> Dubai | By Eman Abdullah | 25-12-00
>
> The lawyer representing a young Briton accused of hacking into
> Emirates Telecommunications Corp's (Etisalat) Internet system says
> he plans to ask the Public Prosecutor to produce its evidence or
> drop the case.
>
> Lee Ashurst, 21, was arrested at his Dubai flat on June 14 and
> later charged with the "misuse of equipment, services or
> facilities provided by Etisalat" after allegedly being traced as a
> hacker who crippled the UAE's Internet system that month.

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