BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY WEB SITE REMAINS OFF LINE AFTER WEEKEND HACKING
The Associated Press
International Herald Tribune, France
Jan 15 2007
BRUSSELS, Belgium: 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.
It was not the first time the web site had come under attack. Baeck
said the public site was sealed off from the ministry’s intranet and
never contains any confidential information.
"We will have to take even more measures on top of those already in
place to avoid such incidents," Flahaut told the RTBF broadcasting
network.