Hackers bring down radio show's site

Radio program Pescanik's website is currently unavailable after multiple and repeated hacker attacks, it has been announced. Pescanik is also a production company that produces the program, broadcast on B92 Radio since 2000. Authors Svetlane Lukic, Svetlane Vukovic, and others involved in the show issued a statement yesterday and said that the website's troubles started on Saturday. Hackers bring down radio show's site The hacker attacks were described as synchronized and coming from several locations. "After physically preventing an event in Arandjelovac organized by Pescanik as well as numerous similar attempts in Pancevo, Futog etc., we are now facing a more cowardly, virtual attack which is preventing our readers from accessing our site, www.pescanik.net," the statement said. "We are told that the attackers are an organized group of hackers who have, for days now, been crashing our website. This is beyond a doubt a synchronized attack, originating in numerous locations. We have never faced an attack of this kind." B92 considers this type of attack against media websites to be an attack on the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression in Serbia, and is asking the authorities to undertake those measures within their powers to prevent similar incidents, and punish those guilty according to the law. B92 also reminds that Pescanik was a target of physical attacks on several occasions, including in Arandjelovac in 2007, and expresses its solidarity with the authors of the program, along with a determination to persevere in its protection of the right to free expression. Since the statement issued by the Pescanik production also said that the show's Jan. 23 and 24 broadcasts on B92 Radio were interrupted, with B92 signal jammed in Belgrade and throughout Serbia, the company's technical service will check on these claims, and report to the public. In case B92 Radio signal had indeed been obstructed, B92 will file a complaint with the appropriate prosecution office and the Republic Telecommunications Agency.

Hackers bring down radio show's site

The hacker attacks were described as synchronized and coming from several locations.

"After physically preventing an event in Aranđelovac organized by Peščanik as well as numerous similar attempts in Pančevo, Futog etc., we are now facing a more cowardly, virtual attack which is preventing our readers from accessing our site, www.pescanik.net," the statement said.

"We are told that the attackers are an organized group of hackers who have, for days now, been crashing our website. This is beyond a doubt a synchronized attack, originating in numerous locations. We have never faced an attack of this kind."

B92 considers this type of attack against media websites to be an attack on the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression in Serbia, and is asking the authorities to undertake those measures within their powers to prevent similar incidents, and punish those guilty according to the law.

B92 also reminds that Peščanik was a target of physical attacks on several occasions, including in Aranđelovac in 2007, and expresses its solidarity with the authors of the program, along with a determination to persevere in its protection of the right to free expression.

Since the statement issued by the Peščanik production also said that the show's Jan. 23 and 24 broadcasts on B92 Radio were interrupted, with B92 signal jammed in Belgrade and throughout Serbia, the company's technical service will check on these claims, and report to the public.

In case B92 Radio signal had indeed been obstructed, B92 will file a complaint with the appropriate prosecution office and the Republic Telecommunications Agency.