PM’s Official Web Site Targeted By Hackers

A cyber criminal known as Karan intentionally breached the official homepage of www.bbm.gov.tr, of the Turkish Prime Ministry's press center on May 1, 2008, in order to express opposition against the rising unemployment in the nation.

A message on the homepage greets guests to the site stated "Game Over. Your system is rooting". But, the Premier's press center was managed to contain the situation by posting a message stating, that the Web site was under construction owing to technical troubles.

The cyber criminal's message declared that as the Prime Minister does not care to pay heed to their protests, this is the only form of attracting his attention. Though there are several jobless people in Turkey, the Prime Minister still employing imams. Perhaps the nation could be salvaged only through their prayers.

Furthermore, on one of the site's subpages, the cyber-terrorist had inscribed that this is a second consecutive violation, proved that the safety measures of the government institutions are not on the right track. Even as attempts to restore the official site are still on, the homepage has been furnishing a test page to its guests as of May 2, 2008.

The cyber-terrorist declared that since he was not a mere attention seeker, he would not hack any other site and concluded by saluting the Prime Minister. The site is back save for a screenshot of the cyber-terrorist's message on a blog post that challenges media coverage. This breach comes after other attacks that aimed and stopped visitors from entering the site.

These days cyber-terrorists are attacking authorized and state-owned sites worldwide. Several international authorized sites along with government Websites, and a few UN run sites, have also been attacked and are distributing malevolent software.

Also, these cyber criminals have made the very explanation of bad online behavior hi-tech. Equipped with broadband and ample unrestricted spare time before the PC, protected by the comparative obscurity of the Internet, they've successfully changed themselves.

Since this is a second instance of hacking of the PM's official site. Previously, cyber-terrorists had hacked the homepage of the Polish Premier in April 2008. Presently, computer experts are examining clues left by the hackers during the breach. The offender could be put behind bars for eight years for hacking the official government sites.

» SPAMfighter News - 09-05-2008

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