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Hackers lash out at Islamic Usenet group

S'kiddies have taken out the mail server used by the moderators of an Islamic Usenet group in the latest of a serious of untargeted attacks by "vigilante" hackers following last week's terrorist attacks on the US. The admin of soc.religion.islam told us that hackers threw a mail attack against its server over the weekend which crashed the old machine it used."The email originated as a flood attack against the newsgroup from a machine at a Canadian ISP, but since the newsgroup [soc.culture.islam] is moderated it was converted into a mail bomb by their NNTP server," an admin at the hosting site told us. Service has now been restored and people can once again post to the newsgroup, none of the postings to which we looked through advocated the use of terror tactics.

News source: The Reg

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