{"id":20104876,"date":"2024-10-24T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20104876"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:47:41","slug":"online-newspaper-sudanile-back-online-after-serious-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/online-newspaper-sudanile-back-online-after-serious-hack","title":{"rendered":"Online newspaper Sudanile back online after \u2018serious hack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Online Sudanese newspaper Sudanile<\/em> is back online after a week-long blackout, following \u201ca fierce campaign and repeated hacking attempts\u201d, the paper reported on Wednesday. The latest hack attempt, that targeted the newspaper\u2019s digital archives going back 24 years, was largely thwarted, however the site\u2019s content from the last three months has been lost, the paper\u2019s editor says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on the site on Wednesday, Sudanile<\/a><\/em> Editor-in-Chief Tarek Al-Jazouli says that it foiled a serious hacking operation last Thursday, that led to a week-long suspension of its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSudanile<\/em> newspaper has been exposed to a fierce campaign and repeated hacking attempts, especially after the outbreak of the war,\u201d he says, citing four attempts, \u201cthe most dangerous of which was the serious hacking on Thursday, October 17, which resulted in the site being down for a whole week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Jazouli says that while initially, the content of the site dating back 25 years was deleted, however they have managed to recover the bulk of the archive, except for the content from the past three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Jazouli says that the news site will release information later regarding the parties behind the hacks, \u201cafter we obtained all the details from the company that hosts the site, which is now working on cleaning and securing the site”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalism under threat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rashid Saeed, Radio Dabanga\u2019s Team Leader, Verification and News Gathering, emphasised on Monday<\/a> at the\u00a0Free Press Live 2024<\/a>\u00a0event at in The Hague, the Netherlands: \u201cSince the outbreak of the current conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, 90 per cent of the infrastructure of media institutions has been destroyed, journalists have been killed, targeted, detained, tortured, or forced to flee abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported by Radio Dabanga today, international journalism and press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has appealed to the authorities in Egypt halt the imminent deportation of four Sudanese journalists<\/a> who were arrested in September, and are being held in a refugee centre in Aswan, on the border between Egypt and Sudan. The group calls on Egypt to release them, and guarantee their protection.<\/p>\n