Al Arabiya website hacked

Al Arabiya, the Dubai-based pan-Arab television station said its website had been hacked, according to a report.
The hacked website, alarabiya.net, displayed an Israeli flag set on fire and a statement that read: 'Serious warning: If attacks on Shia websites continue, none of your websites will be safe,' according to the Emirates Business report.
'Hackers seized Al Arabiya's domain shortly after midnight through a security loophole in the domain. They claim to be Shias but there is no proof of that,' Anas Fouda, editorial manager of the website, was quoted as saying in the report.
Some websites claimed that Dubai Media City had warned Al Arabiya to ensure its news content did not cause tensions among different Muslim groups.

Robert Morris

Robert Morris
Captions by Associated Press.


On July 26, 1989, Robert Morris was indicted for spreading the Internet’s first worm virus, infecting more than 6,000 university, research center and military computers. Robert Tappan Morris was a Harvard graduate and a graduate student at Cornell when he developed the first widely spread Internet virus, and the first “worm” virus. He developed the worm to “gauge the size of the Internet,” but it ended up spreading through a network of 60,000 computers, infecting 6,000 of them. His worm traveled across Arpanet, the precursor to today’s Internet, and infected machines at universities, research centers and military installations. Ironically, Morris’s father was the chief technology scientist for the National Security Agency at the time.Once discovered, Morris was the first person indicted for Internet hacking under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris was found guilty in 1990 and sentenced to 400 hours of community service and three years’ probation, and fined $10,050.
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'Hacker' extradition case !

The extradition hearing of Gary McKinnon has resumed. Gary McKinnon, 40, is accused of causing damage to 97 US government computers estimated at £370,000.

His lawyers want US authorities to give reassurances he will not get a military order and face being sent to Guantanamo Bay with no prospect of parole.

He is alleged to have infiltrated the military system from his home computer between February 2001 and March 2002.

In total, Mr McKinnon is said to have accessed 53 US Army computers, 26 US Navy computers, 16 Nasa computers, one US Department of Defence computer and one US Air Force computer.