Hackers again shut down Hong Kong government Web site

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500214563-500303437-501680312-0,00.html

Agence France-Presse

HONG KONG (June 11, 2000 9:44 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
Hackers launched another attack on a Hong Kong government Web site
Sunday, forcing officials to close the site down for the second time
in less than 24 hours, a spokesman said.

The government decided to temporarily shut down the Interactive
Government Services Directory Web site "to solve problems created by
two defacement cases over the weekend," it said in a statement.

"We resumed service at 2 a.m. today after a defacement yesterday, but
the web site was still subjected to further attacks," the government
spokesman said.

Hackers attacked the site Sunday afternoon following an attack
Saturday that forced the site to shut down for more than 10 hours.

"The other government web sites have not been affected," the spokesman
said.

"The outward symptoms of the two attacks are similar with the home
page being defaced and replaced by messages," he said.

The government shut down the affected home page on Saturday after the
messages "Owned by the Crows" and "hacked by Analista" were found
posted on the site.

Analista means analyst in Spanish.

Police were investigating the case, the government statement said.

The government successfully fended off two hacking attempts against
its Web site last year.


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