Goa Govt. Six More Website hacked by Palestine-based server

 

 PANAJI: Six more Goa government websites were hacked Tuesday using a Palestine-based server, police said. The governor's website was hacked by Pakistan-based techies three weeks back.

The websites of the Chief Electoral Officer and departments of Land Records, Civil Supplies, Right to Information and a local municipal council were hacked Tuesday.

The websites have been taken offline as a precautionary measure, an officer attached to the Goa Police Cyber Cell told IANS.

"The websites have been hacked using a Palestine-based server. We believe the hacker group is based in Palestine," the officer said.

The governor's website which was hacked Oct 24 continues to have limited functionality, even three weeks after the incident.

The state government portals were also hacked by a Pakistani cyber expert in July last year when 13 websites maintained by government departments were defaced.

Police had then said that the websites were hacked by a cyber group called H4x0r HuSsy.

Pakistani Hacker Deface Indian Southern Railways Website

New Delhi: An inactive website of the Southern Railways www.southernrailway.gov.in has been defaced apparently by Pakistani hackers.

The hacker group that calls itself 'Pak Cyber Pyrates' replaced the home page of the website with a page with content that denounces India's role in Kashmir.

The official Southern Railways website moved to a new domain www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in back in 2010.

Inactive websites are a soft target for hackers as they are not constantly monitored. Recently the hacker group Anonymous had targeted an inactive Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) website accusing the company of censoring content on the Internet.

Indian and Pakistani hacking groups are engaged in a cyber war of sorts with websites in both the countries being regularly attacked and defaced.

Updated Aug 07, 2012 at 10:17am IST      Source-IBNLIVE