Vatican shuts down its website amid hacking attempts

[Viking]

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https://cybernews.com/news/vatican-shuts-down-its-website-amid-hacking-attempts/

The Vatican was forced to take down its main vatican.va website on Wednesday and soon admitted it had detected apparent attempts to hack it.

“Technical investigations are ongoing due to abnormal attempts to access the site,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told Reuters on November 30, without elaboration.

The website was down Wednesday and Thursday but came back up by Friday morning. Yet, attempts by Cybernews to access the Latin version of vatican.va were met with “404” error messages.

It’s not clear who the alleged hackers are, although there is precedent for hacking groups targeting the Vatican because of statements by Pope Francis. A Turkish hacker broke into the Holy See’s website after the pope called the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Turks a “genocide.”

The educated guess this time would be that Russians did it – the attack came a day after Russian politicians criticized Pope Francis for his comments about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a recent interview with a Jesuit magazine.

The pope controversially spoke of two Russian ethnic minorities – Chechens and Buryati – as exceptionally cruel. “Generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryati and so on,” Pope Francis said.

After the alleged cyberattack, Andrii Yurash, the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, blamed Russia for the latest incident on Twitter.

https://cybernews.com/news/vatican-shuts-down-its-website-amid-hacking-attempts/

 

[Zero Knowledge]

We all know Jesus was a hacker.

 

[TedCruz]

The Vatican was forced to take down its main vatican.va website on Wednesday and soon admitted it had detected apparent attempts to hack it.

“Technical investigations are ongoing due to abnormal attempts to access the site,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told Reuters on November 30, without elaboration.

The website was down Wednesday and Thursday but came back up by Friday morning. Yet, attempts by Cybernews to access the Latin version of vatican.va were met with “404” error messages.

It’s not clear who the alleged hackers are, although there is precedent for hacking groups targeting the Vatican because of statements by Pope Francis. A Turkish hacker broke into the Holy See’s website after the pope called the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Turks a “genocide.”

The educated guess this time would be that Russians did it – the attack came a day after Russian politicians criticized Pope Francis for his comments about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a recent interview with a Jesuit magazine.

The pope controversially spoke of two Russian ethnic minorities – Chechens and Buryati – as exceptionally cruel. “Generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryati and so on,” Pope Francis said.

After the alleged cyberattack, Andrii Yurash, the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, blamed Russia for the latest incident on Twitter.

https://cybernews.com/news/vatican-shuts-down-its-website-amid-hacking-attempts/

Oh oh Someone accidentally ran Deamon with root/sudo rights.

Although we all know that Jesus saves.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Jesus built my botnet!

I've updated the classic Ministry song for the year 2022

 

[TedCruz]

Jesus built my botnet!

I've updated the classic Ministry song for the year 2022

Jesus takes the holistic approach to software development... He is anti six six six Sigma method.

 

[Stopspying]

https://cybernews.com/news/vatican-shuts-down-its-website-amid-hacking-attempts/

"The educated guess this time would be that Russians did it – the attack came a day after Russian politicians criticized Pope Francis for his comments about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a recent interview with a Jesuit magazine."

The Archbishop of Canterbury was on the radio this morning, knocking the events in Bucha after visiting there. Now, would it be a coincidence if the Church of England gets hacked?!

 

[Sandbox Breaker]

They installed the AntiChrist PHP script.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

The Archbishop of Canterbury was on the radio this morning, knocking the events in Bucha after visiting there. Now, would it be a coincidence if the Church of England gets hacked?!

Who cares if they get hacked, what data would they have that would be valuable?

Maybe the church is involved in a conspiracy to hide the existence of UFO's!!!

 

[Stargazer_Steve]

Who cares if they get hacked, what data would they have that would be valuable?

Maybe the church is involved in a conspiracy to hide the existence of UFO's!!!

Agreed, if they did have anything of interest, it'd more than likely be in print and stored in their physical archives!

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Agreed, if they did have anything of interest, it'd more than likely be in print and stored in their physical archives!

I would imagine that some of the items that they have stored/hidden in the Vatican vault's would be jaw dropping for the public if they found out. What I would give for a couple of hours to rummage around in them.

 

[oldschool]

I would imagine that some of the items that they have stored/hidden in the Vatican vault's would be jaw dropping for the public if they found out.

The truth about Mary Magdeline, among other things.

 

[Chuck57]

Well, of course, it must be the Russians. The Ukrainian ambassador said so. "After the alleged cyberattack, Andrii Yurash, the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, blamed Russia for the latest incident on Twitter." Everybody knows they have no reason to lie.