PhpBB site compromised, developers locked out
Brazilian hackers allegedly attacked site, posted their own message protesting President Bush.
A handful of Web sites, including the site for the popular open source bulletin board project phpBB, have been compromised this week by a group apparently trying to make a political point.
The site, phpbb.com, was reported as being down early Sunday by a member of the phpBB team posting on the project’s development bulletin board. Developers were apparently locked out of the site by the hackers.
The hackers replaced the phpbb.com front page with a picture of U.S. President George Bush’s head pasted onto the body of a monkey and a message in Portuguese advocating that people use their lives to make others happy and to appreciate flowers. The hackers, calling themselves the Simiens Crew, are apparently from Brazil and were protesting against Bush.
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