n response a loose coalition of Islamist hackers have defaced several French websites. Several hacking groups are claiming responsibility for “religiously motivated defacements,” Helmi Noman, a researcher with the Berkman Center at Harvard University and the Citizen Lab at University of Toronto told Mashable.One group, calling itself the United Islamic Cyber Force, taunted Anonymous in various defacement while calling on other Muslim hackers to join its “OpFrance” hacking campaign.

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