The Robin Hood pub is the latest Bermuda establishment to fall foul to Brazilian computer hackers who have vandalised the Hamilton venue?s website.

Those logging on hoping to peruse menus or find out about the latest entertainment are now faced with a blank screen with the strange message ?Un-Root rew blehhh .. Brasil rula?.

Robin Hood manager Chris Morley was unaware of the problem, which started more than a week ago, until contacted him.

He said: ?I am very relieved it isn?t anything rude. We will have to look into it.?

His pub fared better than the Bermuda Investors In People website which had its Internet addressed bought by pornographers when the licence expired in March.

Six months on visitors are still being drawn to a portal offering all manner of sleaze to suit even the most perverted tastes. Other high profile victims over the years have included law firm Conyers Dill and Pearman, CedarBridge Academy and one of the major banks.

The latest figures show 54 percent of Bermuda-based businesses now have their own website. Computer security expert

Stephen Davidson of QuoVadis Ltd. said he estimated around ten Bermuda companies had their websites hacked into every year.

?Increasingly companies are using the Internet to conduct business from websites. It?s part of their operational infrastructure. If you lose you website you lose a conduit for business.?

Many of the attacks on Bermudian sites originated hackers from Brazil, said Mr. Davidson. He said: ?I suspect one reason is that some Bermudian sites are conducted as ?.bm? which is close to ?.br? for the Brazil.?

However he said computer vandals from the large South American nation were often responsible for attacks on other nations and he was at a loss to understand why. He said the hackers were sometimes schoolkids testing their skills or were done from a political motive.

Bermudian firms are now taking a greater interest in securing their websites said Mr. Davidson who said keeping the software up-to-date was the crucial thing.

?The first thing is to have a plan for website maintenance to ensure the software is kept up to date, that?s the most frequent security problem.

?Obviously the more valuable it is to the business the more they should spend on security.? He said some firms wanted computer security firms to test out website vulnerability while others requested 24 hours surveillance.