Victoria’s Monash Varsity website hacked

April 17th, 2011 - 3:33 pm ICT by ANI  

Melbourne, Apr. 17 (ANI): Victoria’s Monash University has reported to “specialist agencies” the hacking of its website home page, which on Saturday displayed the words “Hacked by yaser007″ in red above a picture of the Iranian flag within the outline of a map of the country.

In an emailed statement on Sunday, Monash University chief information officer, Ian Tebbett, said the site “was subject to an external hacker breach on Saturday” but that “the situation was quickly identified and dealt with”.

He said no university data had been compromised and that the effects were “limited to the publishing of non-Monash material on the externally-facing website”.The University of Sydney called in two internet security firms after the incident occurred to beef up protection from hackers. (ANI)

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