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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Tunis News hacked - November 2008

DATE:
2008-11

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Tunisia

AFFECTED SITES:
tunisnews.net

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
None

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Tunisian government

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
One of many attacks on Tunisian opposition websites. Site was able to make a good recovery.

URLS:
1. http://www.ifex.org/tunisia/2008/11/10/two_websites_victims_of_hacking/
2. http://censorship.cybversion.org/2009/01/30/north-africa-are-political-websites-more-likely-to-get-hacked/

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