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Websites defaced by anti- and pro-war attackers |
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Three categories of attackers have been noticed by the anti-virus firm F-Secure:
Patriotic Americans, who want to join the war but have no others means to do so except by attacking the virtual enemy. This may take the form of launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against the email server of the Iraqi embassy or websites of Iraqi companies.
Islamic extremist groups from around the world who are trying to fight back against the perceived enemy by launching attacks against US sites and especially .mil websites.
Peace activists who are just against the war. Several computer viruses have been released which carry an anti-war message or are trying to use the situation otherwise for their own advantage.
F-Secure said three worms, Lioten, Prune and Ganda, were related to the war against Iraq.
A spate of defacements had begin nearly 48 hours before the war began with more than 200 sites being broken into.
Some examples include the US National Centre for Agricultural Utilization Research, the US Navy, and the Pacifica, California community website.
Screenshots of the defaced websites can be seen here.
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