Muhammed cartoon hack attacks
p2p news / p2pnet: Quite a while back we had an email from Danish reader telling us about Christoffer Zieler’s Muhammed cartoons, originally published in Jyllands-Posten last September, wondering if they might make an item in p2pnet.
One of them showed the prophet with a bomb under his turban and, Not for us, we said, thanking the reader.
The appearance of the cartoons sparked waves of religious anger as Islamic extremists used them for their own political purposes.
Predictably, attacks against Danish web sites quickly followed and Islamic cyber-protesters, “addressed attacks toward a wide selection of Danish (nearly 600) as well as Israeli and more generally western web-servers totaling nearly reported 1,000 attacks,” says Zone-H.
“Zone-H.org, the cybercrime independent observatory of Internet server side intrusions has attentively observed in the recent days the activity of the Islamic hacker communities trying to profile their involvement in online activities linked to the prophet Mohammed/Denmark issue and got directly from such community reports about their intrusions,” says Roberto Preatoni.
“What came out from the survey is what Zone-H very much expected: the use of the Internet as an instrument to spread out cyber protests related to what happens in the worldwide context.
“Several hacker groups from different Muslim nations united their forces in order to produce the larger amount of damages in Danish and more generally western web-servers. During the attacks they promoted both moderate and extremists manifestos through the defacement of the homepages promoting also a boycott campaign throughout the digital Ummah against Danish products.
“In fact in one of the highlighted attacks the hacker going by the handle DarlBlood clearly incites the Ummah community to avoid Danish products by quoting the website www.no4denmark.com. But Zone-H noted many other, and more threatening examples: warning for suicide bombing attacks were posted on http://amris.dk forums by the “IIB – Internet Islamic Brigades”, and threats for a coming Jihad have been used to crack many other web-servers from all over the western and non-western world.”
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Zone-H – Prophet Mohammed protest spreads on the digital ground, February 7, 2006
February 8th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Anybodys got as link for the cartoons ??
I really would like to se what all the fuss is about.
February 8th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
I think Jyllands-Posten has taken the images down, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons has a list of sites mirroring the images.
February 8th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
I don’t think seeing the cartoon can tell you what the fuss is about. It’s clearly a culture clash…the west values free speech , individuality and has a history of poking at leaders with comics.
We are more likely to believe they are making this anger up. It’s alien.
February 9th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
With Muslims all over the world protesting the cartoons violently I have to wonder where was their indignation last September when they were first published.
Everyone needs to step back, take a breath, and relax. They’re only cartoons.
February 10th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
March 10th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
what the fuck !!!!!!! muhammed is allahs prophet he is better than all of you
October 11th, 2006 at 7:53 am
So says all dem muslims anyway…
And no, I am NOT a “coward”, I’m just “anonymous – MY choice…not yours…