an online resource 'monitoring and documenting hacked South African-based websites' goes online. Gauteng's department of local government's website is hacked by CeCen Hack Team who appear to be a radical Islamic group The second Live Hacking 2010 South Africa ethical hacking workshop was held in Pretoria. Hackers expose corrupt business practice in the banking system - a confidential document detailing information about South African banks is published by Wikileaks. South African Minister for Finance and Economic Development, announces 32 arrests in connection with more than 80 separate fraud counts related to spyware and the loss of (13m pounds) R130m. anti-cyber terrorism, vows to stay tunes to its community members and hopes one day to put a stop to these elite members of its hacking community, they will be paying close attention to its site owner EVILWez. Īlthough authorities have been unable to pin point the master minds behind the incidents, S.A. H.O.Z, currently the largest South African hacker community goes online, and quickly gains a reputation for bypassing local cell network internet restrictions. The value of the damages caused by the attack is estimated at approximately 80.000 dollars. The financial institutions report that no less than 10 bank accounts have been hacked. 2006 įirst National Bank, Standard and Absa banks are the targets of several successful online attacks. 'Team Evil', a group of Maroccan hackers, defaces 250 South African websites on the afternoon of 8 January, with anti-American propaganda. Hackers break into South Africa's official statistics website, replacing economic information with critical comments about the national telephone company, Telkom. The DA party website is defaced by a hacker. Telecommunications company Telkom's computer system but apparently did no damage. Police arrest a teenage boy from Rondebosch who hacked through all the security features of South African 2004 Ī group of computer hackers calling themselves 'Spykids' strikes 45 Cape Town business websites and defaces their home pages. Also in 1991, Kagenna Magazine publishes an article on Cyberpunk by Dr Tim Leary, the first time the word is mentioned in print in South Africa.Ī right-wing hacker attempts to sabotage election results by hacking into the computers processing election results of South Africas first democratic election. Many hackers gain their first experience of online world via Douglas Reeler's modem. 1991 Ĭape Educational Computer Society (CECS) becomes the first to advocate free software culture in South Africa. IBM is now the subject of an ongoing court case for its active support of the apartheid regime. Activists are trapped by BOSS agents who use ATM autotellers to monitor transactions.

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