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Liberia: New Democrat's Website Hacked
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 00:01:32 -0500 (CDT)
http://allafrica.com/stories/201005180373.html New Democrat (Monrovia) 18 May 2010 Cowardly mischief makers, possibly with the backing of some higher-ups over the weekend hacked into the web-site of the New Democrat disfiguring it with a photograph and a message scrawled on it which read: "can you feel it, your rage feeds our power." This paper was alerted to the hacking when series of telephone calls, some from Germany, England, the United States and Allafrica.com started coming in making inquiries. This is the second time the New Democrat website has been hacked. The Management of the paper is now working on finding a solution and is also hiring professional IT experts to determined the source behind the hacking. All this is happening when this paper has been slapped with a libel suit and ordered to pay US$900,000. Early this year, according to report, attempts were made to hack into the personal computer of former TRC Chairman Cllr. Jerome Verdier, and there are now unconfirmed reports that similar attempts are now aimed at the General Auditing Commission. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/
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