CRACKING DOWN: A filepic showing a person claiming to speak for activist hacker group Anonymous issuing a warning through a video circulated online to "go to war" with the Singapore government over its Internet licensing rules. A Singaporean has been sentenced to two months jail for defacing the prime minister's office website last year.
SINGAPORE: A court jailed a 28-year-old Singaporean for two months for defacing the prime minister’s office website during a rash of cyberattacks in the city-state last year.
Mohammad Azhar bin Tahir, who is unemployed, had pleaded guilty to “unauthorised modification” of a section of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s official website on Nov 7, 2013, causing it to display mocking messages and pictures from international hacker group Anonymous.
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