Tuesday, Nov 02, 2010
Gulf News
Riyadh A hacker, residing abroad, managed yesterday to hack into the website of the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia.
Assisted by a number of others, he changed the ministry’s site homepage, replacing it with a message that read: “I’m a student living outside the country. I want you to arrest me. My mobile phone was not changed.”
After half an hour, the hacker changed the message to: “No protection, look for another protection.” He however, did not explain what he meant.
The website of the Saudi ministry of education has been hacked twice before, with the incidents taking place in less than 24 hours of each other.
The hackers, who call themselves, Munazamat Al Waad Al Sadiq, or the True Promise Organisation, posted a picture of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.
They wrote: “You still consider Shiites as infidels. He who warns is excused.” The message bears the signature of the website of Ali Al Sistani.
This second hacking incident came only two hours after an official statement from the ministry of education, which explained that the website had been fixed at 12:45am, on Saturday.
It was hacked into at 10:30pm on the same day and then unblocked again at 9am on Sunday.
Several Saudi government websites have been hacked in the past despite an anti e-crime law, which carries strict jail terms and fines.
Saudi Arabia
By Abdul Nabi Shaheen?Correspondent
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