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Gov.ph website defaced; police set to investigate Updated 06:08pm (Mla time) Aug 05, 2004 By Erwin Lemuel Oliva INQ7.net (UPDATE) HACKERS on Thursday defaced the official Philippine government portal gov.ph amid the launching of the Government Computer Security Incident Response Team at the Philippine National Police headquarters, an official of the Internet service provider that hosts the site confirmed to INQ7.net. Wilson Chua, president of Bitstop, said that the hackers managed to deface the website by compromising a web-based account that had access to the administration and management backend of the website. "The hackers were able to impersonate a valid user in the system. Thus they were able to deface the website," Chua said. He, however, declined to comment on how the hackers were able to impersonate the valid user. Bitstop was able to trace the attack to Morocco, Chua said. An e-mail from Cesar Yadao from Isabela informed INQ7.net early Thursday of the defacement of the website. In an e-mail message, he pointed out that the gov.ph website was defaced by a group called "Scriptx Morrocans Hackers." The defaced website contained the message: "Hacked By Scriptx Moroccans Hackers F*** bush And SHaroon." Chua confirmed that the messages had been posted on the website. As of Thursday afternoon, the gov.ph website was down, with pages displaying the message "http: 500 Internal server error." The site returned to normal at 2:30 p.m. The Presidential Management Staff updates the content of the government portal. Local police are set to investigate the incident, said Police Superintendent Gilbert Sosa of the Anti-Transnational Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.730 / Virus Database: 485 - Release Date: 7/28/2004 -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
