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Google Morocco hacked

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The Google Morocco domain (Google.co.ma) was briefly hacked on Saturday May 10 by hackers referring to themselves as ‘PAKbugs’.

Google.co.ma is functioning again, but for several hours on Saturday the site was down and this gave enough opportunity for people visiting the site to generate screenshots of the hacked domain. When users visited the site, they briefly saw a message that said “HackeD By PAKbugs. We are ZombiE_KsA Cyber Criminal spo0fer x00mx00m”.

The domain was pointed to a different server, and the message mentioned above was shown when people tried to access the search engine. Google at one point reportedly relayed visitors from Morocco to Google.com instead of Google.co.ma, but it took a while before Google Morocco was functioning correctly again.

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PAKbugs.com is a forum of Pakistani hackers, and the forum boasts of the successful hack here.

Popular blog TechCrunch suggests that the hackers hacked the site by possibly finding a way through NIC.ma, which controls the DNS (Domain Name Service) for Morocco.

This is not the first DNS attack to take place against Middle East Google domains though as Google Algeria was briefly hacked last month as well.

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Learn to earn respect
Posted by Mac on Monday 11 May 2009 at 10:34 UAE time


If the same talent was used for better cause,would have earned respect and better business prospects,no wonder they are now popular for a bad thing than a good one.
Pakistan Rocks..!!!!
Posted by Kaptain, Abu Dhabi, UAE on Sunday 10 May 2009 at 13:24 UAE time


Way to Go..Pakistanis..!!!!
The abilities have never been under utilised but under estimated.

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