Security News > 2000 > December > Re: Etisalat to be told to produce evidence against hacker
Forwarded By: Berislav Kucan If you are interested in how this story started out, check out some of this news snippits from the site I'm working on: British man penetrated into UAE System Thursday 22 June 2000 on 2:33 PM A Reuters report today said a British man is in custody under suspicion for penetrating into the United Arab Emirates Internet system (this looks blurry, we are trying to find an appropriate URL to expand what really happened). He faces charges of damaging the country's economy, according to local newspaper reports today. Reuters said the 26-year-old man, a senior computer engineer in Dubai, was arrested last week after being traced by Emirates Telecommunications Corp. Update on Etisalat penetration Friday 23 June 2000 on 8:26 PM A man arrested for allegedly hacking into Emirates Telecommunications Corp's (Etisalat) Internet service fears he is being made a scapegoat by the telecommunications giant for the disruptions which affected thousands of computer users in the past two weeks. Lee Ashurt's point of view Sunday 2 July 2000 on 2:49 PM Lee Ashurst accused of hacking into and sabotaging the Internet service Etisalat, has filed a defamation suit in Dubai against them. He has also set up a site with his opinion on the whole situation. http://www.supportlee.4mg.com/ Legal facts Thursday 6 July 2000 on 2:38 PM Wired also did a report on Lee Ashurst who is accused of pentrating into systems of Arab ISP named "Emirates Internet and Multimedia". Article focuses mostly on legal facts of computer crime law in UAE. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37401,00.html Ashurst files case against Etisalat Monday 10 July 2000 on 1:27 PM "We filed a civil suit against Etisalat to urge them to submit a copy of their records of the alleged sabotage to court. They are still withholding whatever evidence they have," Lee Ashurst's lawyer Habib al-Mulla told the press. http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,Business|24660,00.html Etisalat to host conference about hacking Wednesday 18 October 2000 on 2:54 AM Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) will stage a top-level conference starting on Saturday on ways to deter hackers. The conference, which will be held at the Etisalat Academy in Dubai, would attract a large number of judges, police officers, database administrators, network managers and IT security specialists. Just to note that 4 months ago, Lee Ashurst was arrested for allegedly hacking into Etisalat servers. http://www.gulf-news.com/17102000/EMIRATES/emirates9.htm Berislav Kucan Help Net Security tel: +385 91 5139159 e-mail: bhz () net-security org url: http://net-security.org