This Time PID's Website Got Hacked

Generally, in Pakistan we don’t care much about security, and this is truly due to lack of education for Information security in the country. Though there are few people who work really hard and put their best efforts to protect their data/computers/web servers from hacking attempts.

I have raised the issue several times about hacking, I mentioned the reasons about why they hack websites, how do they think and so on…! But unfortunately, I see very little change in peoples’ mind and how they treat security concerns.

It’s not about personal websites, but we have seen plenty of corporate websites (including banks/Government

websites) getting compromised. By the way, three banks got compromised in Pakistan since November 2008. We covered one of them in detail, while other hacks were of minor size.

Similarly, today Press Information Department (PID) got hacked – accompanied by some other websites too, which include

http://www.pid.gov.pk/
http://www.pwdajk.gov.pk/

Again, my request to corporations, government institutes and other web server owners is to get their security audit done. Getting security done of a web server is equally important when compared to safeguarding your physical business.

It’s a matter of fact that all these websites, which are being hacked, had low security, and a kid can deface them. So at-least do some basic security, hire some-one and get on the safer end.

You must be wondering, why I am not telling you the steps to secure your web servers; my answer to this question is that I can’t public this information – for a reason that doing a security audit is somewhat similar to hacking, and I don’t want to get punished for giving hack lessons to all of you.

So the idea is to go ahead and hire a company… I hope people will understand and take necessary steps as well.

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M Ali Raza