Hackers take over Syria government websites - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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Some Syrian government websites were hacked on Monday by the opposition group ‘Anonymous’, who replaced the homepages with interactive maps of Syria showing data on the people killed in the government's crackdown since mid-March.
The sites, all domain names that end with “gov.sy”, were based in the cities of Homs, Aleppo, Latakia, Damascus, Tartous, Deir Ezzor and Palmyra.
The hacked versions of the webpages included a link to a site advising activists on how to maintain anonymity on the internet and prevent government tracking.
At the bottom of each page, the hackers provided “real” information about the city the site belongs to, with many of them including short videos documenting security forces’ crackdowns on protesters. The ‘Anonymous’ logo, a headless man in a suit, was on the foot of each page as well.
Last month Syria’s Defense Ministry website was temporarily shut down after ‘Anonymous’ hackers broke into the site and replaced its content with an anti-government message.
The ministry’s homepage was replaced with still images from amateur anti-government videos and a Syrian flag that stretched across the page’s center carried the ‘Anonymous’ logo.
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