<A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/13/hackers-deface-UN-site_1.html">Hackers defaced the United Nations Web site</A> early Sunday with messages accusing the U.S. and Israel of killing children. As of late afternoon, some sections, including the area devoted to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, remained offline.

The attack, spelled out by an Italian software developer on his blog and later reported by the BBC, replaced blurbs of recent speeches by Ban with the following text, which was attributed to a trio of would-be hackers:

HACKED BY KEREM125 M0STED AND GSY THAT IS CYBERPROTEST HEY