Murdoch website hacked by Iranian Cyber Army

[Turborama]

Source: The First Post

Revolutionary Guard thought to be behind Eid festival hacking of Farsi1’s website



The website of the popular Iranian satellite channel Farsi1, co-owned by Robert Murdoch, was reportedly hacked this Wednesday by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army, which is thought to operate under the aegis of the all-powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The hacking was timed for the start of the Muslim festival of Eid - otherwise known as the festival of sacrifice. The screenshot above, which has been widely shown on Iranian news sites, shows Farsi1's website successfully hijacked and emblazoned with the message 'Happy Eid Ghorban'.

The hackers then write: "Rupert Murdoch, the Moby company, the Mohseni family, and the Zionists' partners should know that they will take the wish to destroy the structure of Iranian families with them to the grave."

The 'Moby company' referred to is the Moby Media Group, run by Saad Mohseni, an Afghan-Australian who returned to Kabul in 2002 to set up what is now the country's most high-profile media group. He was described in a New Yorker profile earlier this year as "Afghanistan's first media mogul". Moby runs Farsi1 in partnership with Star TV, the Hong Kong-based TV service owned by Murdoch's News Corp.

Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/71740,news-comment,technology,murdoch-tv-website-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army

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Iran's cyber army issues new message

Source: UPI

Published: Nov. 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM

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The Iranian Cyber Army formed after last year's disputed presidential elections in Iran, breaking into Twitter and several other Web outlets used by backers of Iran's opposition movement.

Ebrahim Jabbari, the head of a division of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, suggested in May that the military branch had created a cyber army.

Full article: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/11/19/Irans-cyber-army-issues-new-message/UPI-23151290180699/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Countdown. Waiting for FOX to really bang the Drums of War . . . .

[bluedigger]

2. Wait. What?

Murdoch is coowner of an Iranian satellite channel?:wtf:

:popcorn:

[Turborama]

3. I was surprised, too. is there anywhere he doesn't have a satellite or cable channel?

I know Faux news is pumped out 24/7 all over Pakistan via 84 broadcasters but this really surprised me.

[molly77]

7. Is Rupert our Goebbels?

[DBoon]

4. and I'm sure he is extremely accommodating of the Iranian government

Fox just loves authoritarian governments.

[Pavulon]

6. Considering they just ran a 3rd grade hack against it, i would doubt that.

I would bet they dont like what he has to say.

[DBoon]

8. dang you are right

foolish me.

I do recall Fox was very accommodating to the PRC when it came to allowing government intervention into their content - I recall Fox was more comfortable with the Chinese government basically censoring their news than were other news outlets

That was a few years ago though

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Isn't Iran sanctioned?

so murdoch is trading with the enemy and needs to be arrested?