Malicious hackers to attack RP websites

[Bogeyman]

Malicious hackers to attack RP websites

Updated 05:49pm (Mla time) Nov 06, 2004
By Erwin Lemuel Oliva
INQ7.net

A CONCERNED hacker warned this week that malicious
foreign hackers are planning to launch a coordinated
attack on Philippine-based websites because the
Philippine government has supported President-elect
George Bush.
“I would like to ask all the Filipino security
enthusiasts to unite in order to protect our country’s
cyberspace. I am now in Malaysia for a security
conference and I have met a group of hackers who said
that they will soon launch coordinated attacks against
Philippine websites. Their main reason: “their
government is supporting Bush.” Akala nila Singaporean
ako (they thought I was a Singaporean),” said a
Filipino hacker known as PI_Flashbulb.

The warning and appeal was made in his weblog this
week.

He urged security experts in the country to set aside
differences and protect the country’s websites.

“Let us all be Filipino security enthusiasts and
forget about our affiliations. Let us make the
Philippine information superhighway safe and secure
from attackers.

We need your help. Let us help our country. If our
government can’t do it, I know we can,” added the
hacker in his blog called “Internet Security and
Warfare” or ISAW.

Meanwhile, PI_Flashbulb confirmed an earlier comment
in his blog, wherein an anonymous hacker disclosed
that the digital subscriber line (DSL) service of both
Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc.(Digitel)
and Globe Telecom were open to possible attacks.

The posting indicated that hackers can easily break
into the telephone companies’ DSL modems and routers.
The hacker discovered that both Globe and Digitel have
not changed the default password settings of their
web-based administration of the DSL services.

“The web-based administration port for these
modems/routers used default usernames like ‘admin,’”
said PI_Flashbulb in an e-mail to INQ7.net.

Digitel was able to fix the problem early this week,
while Globe declined to comment until it sees the
hacker’s postings, the hacker said.

The postings were apparently deleted from the hacker’s
blog, said PI_Flashbulb.

Totoo kaya 'to?

[theveed]

Basta wag lang magalaw tsikot ok lang.. hehe joke..

Kung mahack tapos nabura mga utang natin sa credit card at loans pwede din ... :P

[kingkaboodles]

lagi naman may attack sa mga websites / servers.. i find it normal. DSL links has given these new breed of "hackers" a faster way to launch an attack. if Globe and Digitel never bothered changing their DSL concentrators' default admin passowrd.. eh tongak sila. what's alarming is if an attack would be a coordinated effort.

kung totoo man to bro.. we will never know. the only thing we can do is be vigilant. maybe its just another way of boosting sales of security gadgets and sofwares.

[jim]

Originally posted by theveed
Basta wag lang magalaw tsikot ok lang.. hehe joke..

Kung mahack tapos nabura mga utang natin sa credit card at loans pwede din ... :P

second ako dyan hehehehehe

[mazdamazda]

Philippine websites?

Hahaha...

Am pretty sure that these are just those amateur hackers who vandalize websites every now and then.

Why don't they try cracking the NSA's databank?

[roninblade]

one would think this so-called hackers would find something better to spend their time with.

[theveed]

hehe oo nga... websites walang kwenta ihack.. servers pwedeng pwede... websites...

WHY!??? hehe karamihan ng sites din naman dito hosted sa US eh ehehhe.e

[JAYarc]

yung mga .ph kaya ang affected...dami panaman gov.ph na site..firewall katapat nyan kung mag ala spywire sila..

since pag logon naman sa net damid na kagad spy try to connect sa mga ports>>

[niky]

hmm... can't gmail...

[van_wilder]

bakit naman nila sineryoso yun weblog nun?

[niky]

hehe... back in.

It's ridiculous... those hackers should just stick to hassling big american corporations. We have enough problems as it is.

It is most likely a hoax, or just a bunch of amateurs who are going to go for DNS attacks... pointless.

[mikaztro]

It is possible. Perhaps, they will just do a DOS(Denial Of Service) attack or messing up with the webpages and put a trojan somewhere in their servers. Some would even pick a lock containing CC's(Credit Card) infos and the likes of their database. We just have to live with them and ignore their inarticulate way of expressing themselves.

[odell]

wala naman mawawala kung mag ingat eh

[notEworthy27]

well, I would still say that an attack, at this point in time, in RP websites is pointless. period. It would have been more believable if we had a lot of e-commerce sites here. Of course, nothing beats security. You wouldn't want your own site hacked and vandalized.

[kiper]

HOAX!

Di pa marunong mag-english tong mga totoy na to..

[Bogeyman]

In a worst-case scenario, these cretins may not even need proper English grammar to make a statement in Philippine webspace.

It may not be in our best interests to underestimate the value of the country's online infrastructure. While a lot of our information online is hardly substantial to be considered a loss, the threat of an attack is still a contingency/annoyance that has to be prepared for.

I for one hope not to wake up one day and see people wailing, "Waaaaah! Ba't di ko ma-access ang tsikot.coooooooooom?!"

[mikaztro]

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