Hackers take down UN website

IN WHAT appears to be an anti-US and Israel protest, hackers managed to bring down the official website of the United Nations over the weekend.

A section of the site reserved for statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon showed a message "Hacked By kerem125 M0sted and Gsy That is CyberProtest Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war."

The three hacker names appear on the the www.m0sted.org website which claims the three are part of CyberProtest whose objective is to repeat the message that "the powerful have no right to oppress the powerless."

The three claim to have hacked Harvard University, the UN Environment Programme and industrial giants Toyota and Nestle. We would have thought that bringing down the UN in a protest against Israel and US aggression is a bit like taking out Mother Theresa's site in a protest against Indian poverty.

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