Prankster hacks ICT website

[dirtydog]

Prankster hacks ICT website

(BangkokPost.com) - Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Minister Sittichai Pokaiyaudom has confirmed the ministry's website had been hacked on Thursday but said experts have already fixed the problem.

On Thursday morning an image of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra appeared on the ministry's homepage, waving his hands in the air. Beside the image was also a message attacking the military government.

ICT spokesman Wisanu Meeyu said the hacking might have taken place from the morning until midday, adding it might be aimed at challenging the state power.

The ministry's homepage was back to normal as of 2pm.

Authorities are in the process of tracking down those responsible for the prank.

[watterinja]

This was a class act...

Gave the boyz-in-brown a royal brown-eye...

[dirtydog]

Authorities are in the process of tracking down those responsible for the prank.

I thought this bit was the funniest, I mean the guy has hacked Thailands internet censors and they think they are going to track him down

[Spin]

experts have already fixed the problem.

The same experts that published a hackable homepage?

[lom]

The same experts that published a hackable homepage?

It can happen even in a better family..
I know a couple of swedish guys who hacked the CIA webpage ten years ago..
Among other things, they changed the logo text to "Central Stupidity Agency".
It took CIA 12 hours to notice it

[stroller]

adding it might be aimed at challenging the state power.

It might be aimed at showing how clueless the gov's internet 'experts' are.

Among other things, they changed the logo text to "Central Stupidity Agency".
It took CIA 12 hours to notice it

Priceless!

[Dougal]

Authorities are in the process of tracking down those responsible for the prank.

I thought this bit was the funniest, I mean the guy has hacked Thailands internet censors and they think they are going to track him down

It gets better, the ICT Minister is quoted in The Nation as saying "The Ministry will take action against those behind the attack, to make them pay for what they have did" he added that he had set a deadline for their arrest.

No mention of what the 'deadline' was though.

[watterinja]

Wonder what hacking a website is worth? Wouldn't have thought it would have cost the hacker too much. Damages x4 = Thb 100. Owning rights - priceless.

[lom]

Priceless!

Link:
CNN - Hackers vandalize CIA home page - Sept. 19, 1996

Background:
A few hackers of a group were prosecuted for trying to break in to Swedish ISP's systems. All the prosecutor had was logs showing from where the attack originated.
They were freed in a lower court when denying and saying that their accounts had been stolen, it was someone else who had done it

The prosecutor was not satisfied and brought it to higher court, where the crown prosecutor Bo Skarinder told the court that it was impossible that someone else could have hacked the hackers ISP and stolen the hackers accounts.
So friends of the caught hackers decided to show the court and Bo Skarinder what is possible

[dirtydog]

Hackers of the ICT are possibly Thais in Germany : DSI

It is believed that hackers who broke into the Information and Communications Technology Ministry's website on Thursday may be Thais in Germany, a Department of Special Investigation police said Friday.

"Our investigation showed that the hackers are staying in Europe. At this stage, we believed they may be Thais living in Germany," Pol Col Yannaphon Yangyuen, chief of DSI's technology and information section said.

The hackers plastered the opening page of the ICT website with a moving image of a smiling Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted prime minister, confronting his nemesis, coup-maker General Sonthi Boonyaratglin.

The animation against a black background showed Thaksin grinning and waving his hand, with the message "take back your dictatorship and return our Thailand" next to it.

It was displayed at about 11:50am for about 10 minutes until the page was removed. The site was taken offline until 2pm.

Yannaphon said that the ICT did not ask the DSI to find the hackers. His statement that the hackers were possibly Thais in Germany was from his own investigation.
The ICT meanwhile filed a complaint with police over the hackers.

The Nation

[watterinja]

Methinks the ICT website is going to become a play-ground over the next while... Great stuff...

[dirtydog]

Military to boost Web security

Police say culprits may have been Thais operating from Germany

Hackers who breached the website of the Information and Communications Technology Ministry (ICT) could be Thai nationals based in Germany, the police Information Technology Centre said yesterday.

The online invasion was done from a computer based in Europe, said Colonel Yannaphon Yangyuen.

The officer said his department had earlier sent information about Thai hackers to the ministry to monitor them even before the breach on Thursday.

Yannaphon said that the ministry did not ask his centre to find the hackers. His statement that the hackers were possibly Thais based in Germany was from his own investigation.

As a result of the hacking, the ministry yesterday handed over all systems security to CAT Telecom. The intrusion prompted the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) to reconsider the military's system security, said Isoc spokesman Colonel Thanathip Sawang-saeng.

He said all military units had been instructed to report their readiness to cope with online security breaches and to work closely with CAT Telecom to draft joint precautionary measures for future use.

Quoting CAT Telcom officials, Thanathip said there would be no 100-per-cent guarantee of security.

"But given the lesson we have learned, there will be systematic organisation for mechanisms to deter and prevent future hackings," he added.

The spokesman said Isoc had not analysed if the hacking was conducted to discredit the Council for National Security and its chairman General Sonthi Boonyaratglin.

Unofficially Isoc discussed at an earlier meeting the possibility that the hacking could have been to confuse the public over the coming referendum on the new constitution.

A ministry legal adviser earlier filed a complaint with Thung Song Hong police over the hacking. If those responsible are found they, could be charged with multiple offences stated in three articles under the Computer-related Crimes Act and could face combined sentences of between three to 15 years and fines ranging from Bt60,000 to Bt300,000.

Sonthi dismissed the hacking and those who did it as unimportant and said there was nothing hidden in the Army's official website.
The Army commander said he did not lose face from the hacking but deplored the "unpatriotic" act.

Bangkok Post

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"Our investigation showed that the hackers are staying in Europe. At this stage, we believed they may be Thais living in Germany," Pol Col Yannaphon Yangyuen, chief of DSI's technology and information section said.

What a dumbnut.
There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from the fact that the hack was done through a computer in Germany.
A proxy chain and an open computer. The open computer was in Germany.