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SiSoftware wibble hacked by "Islamic Warrior"

R U Saying Why I Hacking Your Site??
Wed Oct 17 2007, 11:17

SISOFTWARE, producer of benchmarking and diagnostics program Sandra for Windows, has had its website hacked by someone calling himself Security^Ghost.

The page, here, has been hacked to feature a small gif of the mask from corny teen slasher flick Scream and is full of vaguely cryptic, poorly written text - including a tag that says "Islamic Warrior" at the top.

Two reasons are listed for the hack, which we can only interpret as a poorly conceived attempt at humour. "Security^Ghost" asks, "?? R U Saying Why I Hacking Your Site??" and replies himself with "1. Because I love U So Much : D" and "2. Just Fun : )" before saying "now u will tell police, please speed i am scared :( ".

Hacked-again

There's a bunch of islamic text shortly after which, I am afraid to say, I haven't a clue about. Maybe some readers can translate for us.

A-hack

"Greetz" are also offered out at the bottom of the hacked site, a hallmark of spoddy hackers with too much time on their hands. Cool hacker guys such as " Weebi," "Sho0tr," "Mr.Max" and "Syntax_err" are all namedropped.

Fix up, look sharp, SiSoftware. µ

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Weebi weel Talk

we are not muslims or arabic but we are human...we love life and informatiq developpement we practic our knowledgs on world servers then they well more secure hihi.
in the end i well say muslims are the best untill the end and juice in the hill.

weebi 
team4crazy@hotmail.com

posted by : Weebi, 26 April 2008 Complain about this comment
He is gone

We burned him:
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2007/12/islamic-hackers-hacker-alert.html

Gerald
Anthropologist

posted by : Gerald anthro, 17 December 2007 Complain about this comment
Thank you

Thank you so much hotrod for voicing your opinion, if all muslims are like you maybe things would be different.

I am agnostic ex-catholic btw.

db

posted by : db, 18 October 2007 Complain about this comment
r u sure u r a muslim hotrod

it seems that u r not an arabic or even muslim hotrod and u r just talking s*** coz i'm an arab and i live in egypt, and non of that stuff u said about burning churchs has happened
and if u don't know there r christins live in the arab world too, so we can't do this stuff to what we consider our brothers that had fought with us for a long time against any foriegn attacks
note:the christians that live in the arab world r not following the pope of rome, they follow the pope of alexandria, so why do we burn thier churchs when they r not to blame.
so stop being an a**hole and be what u r, there is no need to pretend that u r something else
note:sorry for my english

posted by : BigRadi0head, 18 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Translation

" A word to the server owner, Peace be upon u and the mercy of god and his prayers -islamic greeting-

Look brother, you are wondering why i hacked your server, maybe for one of these reasons:

1. your server is hosting sites containing sexual content.

2. your server is hosting a shii-website (shiia and sunaa are the branches of islam)

3. your server is hosting a political site that violates the rights of any country.

3. or your server is hosting a site that deviates the Quran, or even makes the slightest mistake about islam.

iam ready to fully destroy your server

check if your server doesn't have any of the above sites, then i'm wrong and i'm ready to offer you full protection for the server for free."

from his accent, the hacker appears to be from the gulf countries.

anyway, that's a good way to get free protection. :)

posted by : M.A., 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
That'll be "Arabic" text then...

...not "Islamic".

posted by : Darren Sandford, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
And Google translates it like this

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.sisoftware.net/&prev=/language_tools

posted by : O, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Google translate

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sisoftware.net%2F&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

if anybody understands, I don't...

posted by : deio, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Yes its someone from gulf countries

The translation from M.A is the right translation.

posted by : Ali, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
One thing is for sure...

One thing is for sure... "Islamic Warrior" has god awful music tastes...

(From his real-player plugin at the bottom of the page, click at your own risk...)
http://song2.ozq8.com/ram/eng/Chingy/16-Bagg-Up.rm

The sound of the modern Hacker...

posted by : James Greenhalgh, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Adorable.

Once again, Islamists are showing their fantastic open-mindedness and their ability to rationally deal with a perceived problem. Ugh.

posted by : Max, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
number 3 after 3

When I first see the arabic text, it just look it at a glance. When I read M.A. Translation, I just curious why after number 3 is number 3, is he typo? Then I check the picture one more and discover that It was the original article. Did the message contain any secret message? Why I think that? Because no one will get suppisios and think that this is only ordinary hackjacking. But may it's really only highjacking.

posted by : Hok, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Really credible

Yeah, I'm sure an Islamic fundamentalist is going to sign his doings with an icon directly derived from capitalistic Hollywood's Scream.
An islamic fundamentalist is obviously not going to be bothered in the least by the adoption of an item purloined from the very decadent, corrupt society he apparently wants to fight.
Yeah, sure. That can't be some h4xxor in a basement in New York who, after having defaced a bunch of sites, pulls on his Nikes and goes for Starbuck.
No way.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Stupid people

Im an arab, and Im a muslim. This hacker guy is only a muslim by name, an aquired religion which he obviously knows nothing about. 
I must say that within the past 50 years, arabs deserve the s*** talk they receive because they brought it on themselves. I'm sick of defending my people, I can only defend myself at this point. They do stupid shit like this, in a day and age where everything you do has the potential to reach millions. 
For example, when the pope made those stupid remarks about islam a few months back, they reacted by marching in the streets and burning churches... why? Why didn't they just laugh at the pope, who is incorrect, and is obviously a propaganda tool? Instead, their dumb-asses fed into it, and the pope wins by showing the rest of the world burning churches caused by the hands of muslims. 

Amazing how a piece, can make the whole look bad.

posted by : hotrod, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
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