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Malaysia--Hackers have broken into dozens of Malaysian political Web sites, leaving government officials and opposition leaders fuming today over images of rotting skulls and obscene messages.

One vandal, calling himself "Xenophoria," attacked 21 pro-government Web sites, posting a list of demands for greater press freedom and an end to corruption.

Hackers Force Hong Kong Government Website to Shut Down Again

HACKERS launched a further attack on a Hong Kong government website yesterday, forcing officials to close the site down for the second time in less than 24 hours, a spokesman said.

The government decided to temporarily shut down the Interactive Government Services Directory website "to solve problems created by two defacement cases over the weekend'', it said in a statement.

"We resumed service at 2 am today after a defacement yesterday, but the website was still subjected to further attacks,'' the government spokesman said yesterday.

Hackers attacked the site in the afternoon following an attack on Saturday which forced the site to shut down for more than 10 hours.

"The other government websites have not been affected,'' the spokesman said.

"The outward symptoms of the two attacks are similar with the homepage being defaced and replaced by messages,'' he said.

The government shut down the affected homepage yesterday after the messages "Own3d by the Crows'' and "hacked by O Analista'' were found posted on the site.

Analista means analyst in Spanish.

Hackers forced ITN's email system to shutdown

Malicious computer hackers broke into ITN's email system over the weekend and used the exploit to send out thousands of abusive mails to ITN subscribers.

ITN, one of Britain's premier news services, told ZDNet Monday that no serious damage was done to its system and no important data was taken.

Pointing the finger at malevolent delinquents a spokesman says: "Somebody managed to hack the email system and send out an extremely childish message."

Chinese Bank Accountant Sentenced

The report described the death sentence as the most severe punishment handed down by a Chinese court to a "hacker,'' although it was not clear in what way Fang used computers to commit crimes. The report provided no other details of the case, and court and bank officials were unable to be reached for comment.

Fang Yong falsified bank papers and looted funds from individual accounts at the Ningbo city branch of the Bank of Communications of China where he worked, Xinhua said.

Chinese courts frequently hand down severe penalties for crimes such as fraud, embezzlement and official graft.

 

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