Webmasters Warned On Cyber War
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - Local web-masters and system administrators are advised to brace themselves for the cyber war in the wake of escalating attacks on foreign government-related websites over the past week.

A cyber security expert said global hackers have managed to deface websites of as many 30 government websites since March 1. It was reported at least six websites including an official foreign government website have been defaced a few days ago.

"Hackers who intruded onto the foreign websites also posted political messages," said the cyber security expert.

Bernama also reported that the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCert) received logs from six Malaysian websites that had been defaced over the past week.

MyCert is currently analysing the data to trace the hackers as reports came in that at least another two Malaysian websites were also defaced a few days ago.

Worldwide, local response teams have issued alerts last Wednesday, notifying server administrators to tighten up their systems and install the latest security patches to ward off the attacks. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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