Media Appearances Wired: Taliban Webmaster: We've Been Hacked!
Wired: Taliban Webmaster: We've Been Hacked!
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Administrator Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:28
As readers of the Taliban’s websites know, outages are fairly regular. But a confirmed infiltration may be something new, says Flashpoint Partners’ Evan Kohlmann, who’s been tracking internet extremists for years. “The official Afghan Taliban website has, of course, routinely been knocked offline and disabled by cybervigilantes and other culprits, but this would be the first instance that I’m aware of it being actually ‘infiltrated,’” Kohlmann said. “It’s an unsettling prospect for security-minded online jihadists, because such sites can be manipulated by a variety of hostile parties in order to harvest a breathtaking amount of personal data on regular visitors.”
