Hackers hit western governments

Hackers defaced Government websites in Australia, Britain and the United States over the weekend, in one of the largest systematic attacks on official sites.

The hacker monitoring group attrition.org attributed the attacks to an underground group known as Pentaguard.

The defacement was unusual in that it simultaneously targeted three Governments in different time zones.

A message on the Pentaguard site did not offer a specific motive, but said "Hack governments all over the world ... hack them all ... who needs them anyway? ... they don't have mp3's, they don't have porn ... they're totally unusefull ... "

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