Hackers Pull Down the City of Venice's Website

At this writing, here's what you see when you visit the website of the Comune di Venezia, the city's official site (click on it for an enlargement):

What it says, in effect is:

Because of an attack perpetrated by unknown persons on the evening of the 17th of December and continuing until the morning of the 19th, the Internet Site of the City of Venice is online only in a minimal version. We apologize to the users. The complete version of  the site will be on-line as soon as possible.

Sheesh. That was some hack. Looks like the destruction took place over a couple days. That's very unusual (security anyone?). As a result, the some of the best webcams are inaccessible (I've gotten like 10 emails about that). But that minor inconvenience pales next to the incredible hassle the attack causes to the citizenry ... the site is a real nerve center, very deep and well constructed. What a mindless crime.

Comments

[David]

Glad to see it returning to some kind of normality, alas without the webcams which will be a big miss on New Year's Eve for those of us stuck in a very cold and snowy UK

[Tom.]

The cams seem to be up today!!!
Tom.

[marisa]

At least one of the webcams is up today---I hope the others willfollow soon.

[Tom]

Well, at least 3 of the cams are up today. They're not just static images now as they are refreshing regularly. Sorry about jumping the gun in that earlier post! I guess I let my excitement get the better of me! Hope it's not just some sort of test or I'll have to eat my words again.

[Kevin]

Hi, love the blog! Someone has tried to syndicate your blog's feed at LiveJournal:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/veniceblog/profile

which I tried to sign up for (I do my RSS aggregating through LJ), but it's not working! Apparently the feed is "too big". Is there any way you could limit the number of posts on the feed? I'd love to be able to check for blog updates through LJ!

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let me look at it .... can't be too tough.
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