Threat Center Security News Hackers take on Al-Qaeda
Hackers take on Al-Qaeda Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Monday, 20 October 2008 04:35

Part of Al-Qaeda's media wing has been taken a down due to most of their forums disappearing from the Internet. These forums are often used by the group to relay messages from their leaders.

 

forums used to relay messages from its leaders to its supporters. According to The Washington Post, all but one is now offline. All four that have gone offline seem to have been hit on September 10th, the day before the annual video marking the 9/11 attacks was due to be distributed Hackers have been responsible for such attempts in the past but the websites usually bounce back pretty quickly. Since they
 

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