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.

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