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TURKISH HACKERS AVENGE FRANCE'S 'GENOCIDE BILL'
http://www.france24.com/en/20111227-turkish-hackers-avenge-genocide-bill-with-cyber-attacks
Latest update: 27/12/2011 - cyber crime - France - Turkey
The websites of the French Senate a National Assembly lawmaker who
introduced a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 Turkish
'genocide' of Armenians have been attacked by Turkish hackers. By Tony
Todd (text) Turkish hackers have launched revenge attacks against
the French government after the country's lower house of parliament
approved a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 massacre of
Armenians in Turkey as a crime of genocide.
The website of the Senate, France's upper house of parliament which
will have to approve the bill before it can become law, was down for
two days over the Christmas weekend.
On the evening of December 24, the site showed a black screen signed
by Iskorpit, an infamous Turkish hacker who claims to have hijacked
some half a million websites during his "career."
A source at the Senate said the site came under a Distributed Denial
of Service (DDoS) attack, in which thousands of hijacked computers
bombard a website with demands for information, swamping it and
effectively shutting it down.
On the same day the website of Valerie Boyer, parliamentarian from the
ruling UMP party in the lower National Assembly and primary sponsor
of the "genocide bill", was hijacked, this time showing a black screen
with a Turkish flag.
Messages in Turkish and English called the National Assembly's
approval of the genocide bill "pathetic and pitiful" and accused
France of committing a genocide in Algeria.
The hackers' message to Valerie Boyer
The message was signed by a group calling itself "GrayHatz", which
according to French news site Nouvelobs.com includes members of
"Akincilar", the group that launched the attacks on satirical weekly
newspaper Charlie Hebdo after it published an edition "guest-edited
by the Prophet Mohammed" titled "Charia Hebdo" last November.
Charlie Hebdo's offices were also firebombed on the day the
controversial issue went to press, although one purported member of
Akincilar calling himself "Ekber" told Sunday newspaper Journal du
Dimanche that the cyber group had nothing to do with the firebombing.
Immediately after the dual Christmas Eve attacks, Akincilar announced
its intention to "hack the websites of every single French lawmaker",
nouvelobs.com reported, quoting one of its members saying the group
would publish a list of all its attacks made in France with their
GrayHatz "friends".
On Tuesday, blogger Guillaume Perrier , writing in the left-leaning
French daily Le Monde, accused the Turkish government of failing to
investigate Akincilar for its criminal activities.
"These hackers are acting with impunity in Turkey," said the blogger.
"Not one of them was questioned after attacking Charlie Hebdo's site,
or for their many attacks on other sites."
"If these people had targeted [Turkish Prime Minister] Recep Erdogan's
site, they would already have been locked up and would be facing
terrorism charges."
Meanwhile, Valerie Boyer's site remained down on Tuesday as she told
reporters that she was filing a criminal complaint for harassment. On
Monday, she told BFM radio that she had also received "threats of
death, of rape, of destruction of property and of physical assault"
and that her parents and children had also been threatened.
As for the Senate's website, it was quickly restored and went back
on line.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.france24.com/en/20111227-turkish-hackers-avenge-genocide-bill-with-cyber-attacks
Latest update: 27/12/2011 - cyber crime - France - Turkey
The websites of the French Senate a National Assembly lawmaker who
introduced a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 Turkish
'genocide' of Armenians have been attacked by Turkish hackers. By Tony
Todd (text) Turkish hackers have launched revenge attacks against
the French government after the country's lower house of parliament
approved a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 massacre of
Armenians in Turkey as a crime of genocide.
The website of the Senate, France's upper house of parliament which
will have to approve the bill before it can become law, was down for
two days over the Christmas weekend.
On the evening of December 24, the site showed a black screen signed
by Iskorpit, an infamous Turkish hacker who claims to have hijacked
some half a million websites during his "career."
A source at the Senate said the site came under a Distributed Denial
of Service (DDoS) attack, in which thousands of hijacked computers
bombard a website with demands for information, swamping it and
effectively shutting it down.
On the same day the website of Valerie Boyer, parliamentarian from the
ruling UMP party in the lower National Assembly and primary sponsor
of the "genocide bill", was hijacked, this time showing a black screen
with a Turkish flag.
Messages in Turkish and English called the National Assembly's
approval of the genocide bill "pathetic and pitiful" and accused
France of committing a genocide in Algeria.
The hackers' message to Valerie Boyer
The message was signed by a group calling itself "GrayHatz", which
according to French news site Nouvelobs.com includes members of
"Akincilar", the group that launched the attacks on satirical weekly
newspaper Charlie Hebdo after it published an edition "guest-edited
by the Prophet Mohammed" titled "Charia Hebdo" last November.
Charlie Hebdo's offices were also firebombed on the day the
controversial issue went to press, although one purported member of
Akincilar calling himself "Ekber" told Sunday newspaper Journal du
Dimanche that the cyber group had nothing to do with the firebombing.
Immediately after the dual Christmas Eve attacks, Akincilar announced
its intention to "hack the websites of every single French lawmaker",
nouvelobs.com reported, quoting one of its members saying the group
would publish a list of all its attacks made in France with their
GrayHatz "friends".
On Tuesday, blogger Guillaume Perrier , writing in the left-leaning
French daily Le Monde, accused the Turkish government of failing to
investigate Akincilar for its criminal activities.
"These hackers are acting with impunity in Turkey," said the blogger.
"Not one of them was questioned after attacking Charlie Hebdo's site,
or for their many attacks on other sites."
"If these people had targeted [Turkish Prime Minister] Recep Erdogan's
site, they would already have been locked up and would be facing
terrorism charges."
Meanwhile, Valerie Boyer's site remained down on Tuesday as she told
reporters that she was filing a criminal complaint for harassment. On
Monday, she told BFM radio that she had also received "threats of
death, of rape, of destruction of property and of physical assault"
and that her parents and children had also been threatened.
As for the Senate's website, it was quickly restored and went back
on line.
From: A. Papazian