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| Moderate Moslem site hacked by Less Moderate Moslems |
| 2004-12-17 |
| From DhimmiWatch -------- I [that is Robert Spencer] have never been overly impressed with the moderation of the self-professed moderate Muslims at the website known as Muslim Wakeup... However, Muslim Wakeup now has other troubles: the site has been hacked by jihadists... Here is their message... It is directed at the staff of Muslim Wakeup, and is headed "Murtad Wakeup"...[murtad (murtadim-plural) = apostate in arabic]. Then it continues: [below is the beginning of the message Muslim Wakeup got from their brothers in faith] we are sorry....MWU is recieving a PENALTY from the Islamic 0xChallenge Brigades!! Bismallah Ar Rahman Ar-aheem due to the continues violation by Muslim Wake Up website and its vile attack on Islam for a long period of time we at the Islamic 0xChallenge Brigades decided to deliever a powerful message to the people behind this website and so we started with an attack on MWU forum , all praise be to Allah the attack was successful... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #5 doesn't this fall into a fairly consistent pattern after a bin Laden tape release. Websites hacked? |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-17 1:55:48 PM |
| #4 insallah we will need no firewall. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-17 1:54:12 PM |
| #3 maybe they thought that the compassionate and merciful Allan would protect their site |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-12-17 11:47:34 AM |
| #2 FreeBSD 'ships' ( it is a free download ) without ANY firewall of ANY kind. You must recompile the kernal to get firewall protection of any kind at all. Also, FreeBSD 'ships' without anything other than the basic operating system, no editors (except for vi and edit) no nothing. You must put a ton of work into the OS in order to get stuff like a web-server or an ftp server running. Sounds to me like the folks hosting this site didn't do any of that. Sounds like they just installed FreeBSD, installed a web server, and away they went. They had it coming, IMHO, but of course, that doesn't excuse the hackers who did this. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-12-17 10:49:38 AM |
| #1 The site, before anyone asks, was running FreeBSD. Hard to believe a web hosting company would have FreeBSD server open enough they could be hacked like that. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-12-17 10:22:59 AM |