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Iranian Hackers Attack VOA Internet Sites

   VOA News  February 22, 2011
   Graphic  that was displayed after hackers temporarily redirected VOA's
   web traffic Feb. 21, 2011

   Graphic  that was displayed after hackers temporarily redirected VOA's
   web traffic Feb. 21, 2011

   A  group  of computer hackers labeling themselves as the Iranian Cyber
   Army  has  attacked  the Voice of America's Internet site, temporarily
   defacing  scores  of news pages with an anti-U.S. message below images
   of an Iranian flag and an AK-47 assault weapon.
   Iran's  IRNA  news  agency boasted of the attack Tuesday and indicated
   the  attack  claimed in the name of the Iranian Cyber Army was carried
   out by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
   VOA  executives  said  the  hackers  did  not  penetrate  any  of  the
   government-funded agency's computer networks.  They did gain entry to
   an  outside  computer  system  that  operates a domain name server - a
   database  of  Internet  addresses available worldwide - and redirected
   VOA traffic to the hackers' own site.
   The  cyber  attack  began  Monday  evening  and continued into Tuesday
   morning.   VOA  said  the problem was resolved quickly once it became
   clear what had occurred, and that no data was lost or compromised.
   The   hackers'   message,  written  in  broken  English,  appeared  on
   VOAnews.com  pages in English, Persian, Azeri, Dari, Pashtun and Urdu,
   and on several subdomains.
   In  comments addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the
   hackers  said  "the  Islamic  world doesn't believe USA trickery," and
   demanded  an  end to alleged U.S. "interference' in Islamic countries'
   affairs,
   The  Iranian  government's  semi-official Fars News Agency praised the
   attack  and indicated it was retaliation for so-called "false reports"
   published about Iran.

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