Cyber-jihadists target Catholic websites

BY MARK GREAVES
CATHOLIC WEBSFTES are under attack from Islamic hackers, it emerged this week.
The editors of the Italian website www.totustuus.it claim their site is repeatedly being brought down by Muslim computer experts, most commonly from Turkey.
David Botti, president of the Totus Thus network, said the hacker could be identified by his "signature" the message which had replaced the original text.
"The most frequent is the Islamic crescent symbol with words offending the Holy Father," Mr Botti explained.
In the past two months the website has been subjected to about 70 attacks. Mr Botti said that 80 per cent were from Muslim hackers and 25 per cent were instigated by Muslims from Turkey.
In April last year The Catholic Herald's website was itself the victim of an assault from "cyberjihadists".
Replacing the words "Britain's leading Catholic newspaper" was a message that said: "I swear by of ALLAH and Qur'an and Flag and Homeland. This Home
land, at no time not Ownerless." The message gave out a rather misleading impression of the Herald's editorial content and was removed soon after it appeared.
During the uproar last September over Pope Benedict XVI's controversial remarks about Islam, an interne piracy campaign targeted the Vatican's website, but it reportedly had little success due to the website's high level of protection.