A View of Cyberterrorism Five Years Later
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A few weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Pakistani Muslim hacking group GForce Pakistan announced the formation of the “Al-Qaeda Alliance Online” on a U.S. government website it had just defaced. Declaring that “Osama bin Laden is a holy fighter, and whatever he says makes sense,” the group posted a list of demands and warned that it planned to hit major U.S. military and British websites. Another GForce defacement contained similar messages along with heart-wrenching images of badly mutilated children said to have been killed by Israeli soldiers. A subsequent message from the group announced that two other Pakistani hacking groups had joined the alliance: the Pakistan Hackerz Club and Anti India Crew. Collectively, the groups had defaced hundreds of websites, often with political messages.
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