Thursday, August 04, 2011
[Hacked] City Government of Tagbilaran Website another victim
It is noticeable that there is a high trend of government sites that are regularly targeted by hackers in order to display political reasons; many defacers do it just for the thrill.
But the bottom line here is why it is happening every now and then? Is it to provoke your IT guys or to test how secure your website is?
Statistics shows that there will be more attacks to come. You should be ready to defend yourself. I’m not saying that you should just sit there and think.
It is true that hackers love technology and breaking your security. They are always one or two steps ahead of you but how do you prevent this from happening?
In one of my meetings with the founder of ROOTCON, especially when Semprix and I were invited by http://www.techtalks.ph/ to share about Information Security, Semprix shared a very striking example of how a hacker thinks about technology:
“To ordinary people, you see this spoon or fork as a tool for eating. For hackers, they look at it as a conductor for electricity.”
…and that is the reason why ROOTCON is about bridging these two worlds.
We all learn from each other when your views and opinions are shared.
What are your recommendations? Share your thoughts.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
[Hacked] Lapu Lapu City Government Website another victim
Basic Google stuff, I searched the group “LatinHack Team” and surprisingly they defaced a quite a number of websites already since February 21, 2010.The previous state of www.lapulapucity.gov.ph was:
Lapu Lapu City Government website was hacked on July 15, 2011, just few more days before the closing date of ROOTCON 5 Security Conference.
Please be informed that we already invited some government offices to participate ROOTCON 5 Security Conference which will be held on September 9 – 10, 2011 at Parklane International Hotel, Cebu City.
I’m not sure if the government of Lapu-Lapu City (a part of Cebu province) received our invitation but rest assured we do our best to invite them after this incident.
If you happen to read this blog post, kindly contact your friend from the city government of Lapu-Lapu City.
To my friend on YM, thanks for sharing. You know who you are.
In the end, should this be a wake up call?
[Update as of 8:47PM, Sunday, July 17, 2011]
I checked the site again at this time and their site is now under maintenance. Screen shot below:
[Update as of 12:09AM, Monday, July 18, 2011]
So far the pages has been restored to its default page. But still it boils down to one question - "Is their website secured now?"
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
PHL gov't to assess website security in response to hacking
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda indicated that National Security Adviser Cesar Garcia is studying creating a task force to do the review.
"The National Security Adviser is studying the creation of a task force to undertake a security review of government websites," he said in a statement posted on the government portal.
Among the most recent attacks on government websites was the defacing last May 31 of the Department of Interior and Local Government's site (www.dilg.gov.ph).
In that incident, a hacker managed to gain access to the website and display the logo of a porn site as one of the agency's "news items."
The "What's New in DILG" section of the DILG's home page contained a link boasting that the website had been "Hacked."
Clicking on the link would take the visitor to a page supposedly containing a news item. But instead of a news item, the visitor would see a logo of porn site YouJizz.
The DILG website was promptly taken offline for days before it returned to normal.
The hacker identified himself or herself as "BatangMahiligMagbatibot" in the compromised page.
But on Monday, a more "serious" group managed to hijack the site of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute.
The group, calling itself "Philker," redirecting visitors to the PNRI site to a separate website that bore a "warning" from the "Philker" group.
"We are not trying to damage you. We only want to help protect our country's cyberspace by doing what seems to be the most efficient way to get everyone's attention. May this deface serve as a reminder that you always have to look out for intruders. No matter how intelligent and competent your computer personnel are, there will be unethical hackers that are constantly working on breaking in your security," the hackers said in their message in the redirected site.
It added that it was "fortunate" that Philker was the one that broke into the site and not other groups.
The site was inaccessible Monday afternoon and was briefly back up later in the day.
But as of Tuesday noon, visitors to the site were greeted with a "Test page."
Philker said that while it and online "thieves and terrorists" are "cut from the same cloth," its difference is that "we have good intentions."
It added it aims to elevate the Philippines' cyber culture and to "point out and correct the vulnerabilities of Philippine websites," to "protect them from unethical hackers, fraud, false propaganda and other people with malicious intent."
It also hinted at future break-ins of other sites, leaving behind a note similar to the international hacktivist group Anonymous.
"Expect more from us. We are Philker," it said - a nod to Anonymous' "Expect us" warning. - TJD, GMA News
Source: GMA News
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