Official Web Site Of Iran’s President, Ahmadinejad, Attacked By Hackers
On Monday night in San Francisco an information technology consultant named Austin Heap reported on his blog that the official Web site of Iran’s president, Ahmadinejad.ir, had been attacked by hackers.
Mr. Heap, who has been active in the effort to provide Iranians with tools to circumvent Internet censorship this year, wrote that “someone seems to have had their way with Ahmadinejad’s web servers.” Although the Web site appears to be down now, Mr. Heap wrote that, for several hours, people trying to access it were redirected to a page which contained the following message:
Dear God, In 2009 you took my favorite singer - Michael Jackson, my favorite actress - Farrah Fawcett, my favorite actor - Patrick Swayze, my favorite voice - Neda.
Please, please, don’t forget my favorite politician - Ahmadinejad and my favorite dictator - Khamenei in the year 2010. Thank you.
A screen shot of the Web page with that message is available on Mr. Heap’s blog.
In a later update, Mr. Heap wrote that the site was subsequently inaccessible, and speculated that it was “either intentionally pulled or … is simply being overloaded since so many people are looking to grab a peek at the hack.”
The apparent attack comes three weeks after a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army” launched an attack that briefly redirected users of Twitter to a site that displayed a message that seemed to support Iran’s government.
Mr. Heap founded the Censorship Research Center and explained on its Web site that the group’s technological activism was motivated by a desire to help Iranians use the Web despite the efforts of Iran’s government to prevent them from doing so.
On Tuesday, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that the country’s intelligence ministry has barred citizens from cooperating with a list of 60 European and American foundations it blames for orchestrating the protests that followed last June’s disputed presidential election in Iran. The ministry also claimed that media organizations like the BBC and Voice of America that have broadcast video uploaded to the Web showing demonstrations back into Iran via satellite are doing so as part of a plot to overthrow Iran’s government.
Credit: The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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