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Belgian Defense Ministry Website Remains Offline After Weekend Hack

An AP newswire article, via Digital Post Production, reports that:

The Web site of Belgium's Defense Ministry remained off line on Monday after it was hacked over the weekend by a group defending Turkish nationalist views.

"In terms of image, this is not very good," said Defense Minister Andre Flahaut. The ministry was beefing up its web firewall and testing its resistance to hackers on Monday before opening up the site again to the public.

The ministry lodged a complaint with the prosecutor's office, after a group calling itself the "Turk Forcers" posted a text in English on the site defending World War I-era actions against Armenians in Turkey and against Kurds afterward, said defense spokeswoman Ingrid Baeck.

posted by Fergie @ 1/15/2007 10:00:00 AM