Radio site defaced by 'Soldier of Allah'

A radio station website has been defaced by a hacker claiming to be a 'Soldier of Allah'.

The Radio Basingstoke website was compromised on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, website co-owner and radio programmer Lee Williams told ZDNet UK on Friday. According to Williams, images of people in balaclavas with machine guns were posted by the hackers on Friday morning.

"I'm appalled that they can do that. And why? We're just playing pop music," said Williams, who added that "the problem was sorted out fairly rapidly this morning."

The Radio Basingstoke website is administrated by a web design company based in the south of England. The individual who administers the Radio Basingstoke website wished to remain anonymous.

However, he told ZDNet UK that there had been a third party application on the Radio Basingstoke website that "looks like it was exploited."

"It looks as though it was a PHP injection, they pushed [malicious] code in through the PHP code," said the web designer. "That [malicious] script has now been removed."

Other sites that had been running on the same server, including a site that gets over two and a half million hits per month, had been unaffected, said the individual.

"It looks like it was a vulnerability in a third party app," said the designer. "We're confident it's been resolved now."