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Al-Faloja Administrator Warns That Taliban Websites Have Been Hacked

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Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Laith Alkhouri Friday, 11 June 2010 16:02

 

In a June 9, 2010 posting on the Al-Faloja web forum, administrator Abu al-Aina’a al-Khorasani warned of an “infiltration operation” targeting “the website of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan and the website of al-Sumood Magazine, which belongs to the Emirate.” Interviewed by Wired’s Danger Room blog, Flashpoint’s Evan Kohlmann commented, “It’s an unsettling prospect for security-minded online jihadists, because such sites can be manipulated by a variety of hostile parties in order to harvest a breathtaking amount of personal data on regular visitors.”

 

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