City Council approves all mayor's re-appointments
Jun. 16, 2010 · 3:42 a.m.
After much procedure, Ypsilanti City Council approved six mayoral re-appointments to city boards and committees Tuesday, including the two postponed from earlier...read more
Council postpones two reappointments
Jun. 4, 2010 · 4:57 p.m.
Two of Ypsilanti's volunteer board members were not reappointed on schedule Tuesday night, owing to a 4-2 vote by City Council to delay the appointments until...read more
Downtown properties to be rehabilitated
Jun. 4, 2010 · 10:40 a.m.
Three recently-vacated properties in downtown Ypsilanti, two of them condemned, will soon be renovated owing to recent purchase by a local development company and...read more
Ypsilanti Township authorizes litigation against Liberty Square
May. 28, 2010 · 6:53 p.m.
Residents living in the Liberty Square complex of townhouses will see a sticker appear on their homes Tuesday, when the Ypsilanti Township Building Department places...read more
Ford plant granted tax exemption by township
May. 24, 2010 · 5:44 p.m.
New machines and equipment will soon be wheeled into Ford's Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti Township as it begins manufacturing a line of batteries for the new global...read more
Photo by Dan Duchene
This image replaced the Tower Inn's website, forcing visitors' to to view this image and render them unable to navigate the normal Website.
Nov. 6, 2008 · 5:00 p.m.
Just in time for lunch, the Tower Inn Cafe's website was hacked.
The problem started this morning and was resolved by 12:30 this afternoon. However, this is the second time the local restaurant's website has been hacked in two weeks.
On both occasions, management contacted their Web host, Powweb, and was able to resolve the problem and change the password."
Instead of being able to view and navigate the site while the site was being attacked, a visitor would be greeted with a black screen. The top of the screen read, "Hacked by nskmr." In the middle is cloaked figure resembling the character in the famed "Scream" films. Below that the page read, "..::nskmr says:one TURK against the world::.."
The hacker signed off with, "sOOry admin :-D"
Rois Savvides, who owns the Tower Inn, said he thought the attack was aimed at him and his restaurant directly because of race.
"I thought it was against the Greek," Savvides said.
He said the Greeks and Turkish have been at odds with each other throughout history. However, when Savvides performed an Internet search of the hacker's handle he realized the attacks have been wide-spread throughout the Internet.
"It was not racially motivated," Savvides said. "It could happen to anyone."
Fortunately, it appears the attack only put the page in front of the Website's existing home page and did not effect the rest of the site at all.
"He could have changed the Website," Savvides said. "He didn't do anything like that."
He said visitors to the site shouldn't worry about the hacker because visiting the site does not effect the viewer's computer.
"Idiots don't have anything better to do," Savvides said.
Dan Carney, a Manager at the Tower Inn, said a women had called the restaurant during the first attack because she could not access the menu on the website. He said a driver had to deliver a menu, come back to the store to order and pick up the food. He then had to deliver that food back to the women and return to the store.
"I think it effects business, of course," Savvides said.
He said the hacker made customer service less efficient, hampered the business' image and caused Forces him to monitor the website.
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