Re: Both Sides Hacked Over Kashmir

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Forwarded by: Mystic Mayhem <mystic () mad scientist com>

Hi all,

When I checked up the article in question about 24 hours ago,(it is
now 1125 hrs 30-12-2000 here), the article read (and still reads):

The Pakistani government's site, www.pak.gov.pk, for example, has been
defaced by those who claim to be "patriot Indians."

So I really am wondering abot the credibility of the source of the
article that SecurityFocus reprinted in the email that was sent to the
mailing list.

If you look at the Attrition mirror history, you can see that there
was a defacement of pak.gov.pk. The defacement mirror is at
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/05/25/www.pak.gov.pk/

As you see, it was in 1999. There has no mirror of any recent
defacement. That seems to contradict the claims of Manu Joseph of
Wired. Anyway GForce Pakistan has already spoken about the defacement
of "pakgov.org" in one of their defacement. Look at
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/12/27/www.styletantra.com/
for what they have to say !

Mystic


------Original Message------
From: InfoSec News <isn () C4I ORG>
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Sent: December 27, 2000 9:29:42 AM GMT
Subject: Re: [ISN] Both Sides Hacked Over Kashmir


Forwarded by: Small Grey <spunge () attrition org>

A little fact checking, Wired?  Try www.pak.gov.pk.

What pisses me off about this is that Wired, this Manu Joseph
reporter, and securityfocus.com are carrying this story at all given
the story's focus on what is, afterall, almost certainly a hoax.

How the hell long does it take to figure out that "pakgov.org" IS NOT
the official government website of Pakistan?  The reporter could have
figured this out from the www.yahoo.com directory, whois, host,
nslookup and other every-day tools for the Internet from back in the
day.  I'm waiting for whitehouse.com to get hacked so Wired can report
that as a hack of the official whitehouse.gov site.



On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:50:54PM -0600, InfoSec News wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40789,00.html
>
> by Manu Joseph
> 2:00 a.m. Dec. 23, 2000 PST
>
> MUMBAI, India -- In the computer-infatuated subcontinent, Y2K will
> go down, among other things, as the year when the India-Pakistan
> technology war reached a crescendo.
>
> More than 40 Indian sites have been infiltrated this year by
> hackers like G Force Pakistan and Doctor Nuker, who have left
> poignant pro-Pakistan slogans and reasons why Kashmir belongs to
> that country.
>
> Among the prominent Indian sites that have been defaced this year
> are those belonging to the Indian Parliament, the Indian army in
> Kashmir, prominent television network Zee, Bhabha Atomic Research
> Centre, newspaper Asian Age and the Indian Institute of Science.
>
> Corporate sites like Glaxo Wellcome's have been attacked as well.
>
> It's been something of a two-way street, although the assault on
> Pakistani sites by Indian hackers has not been as substantial.
>
> The Pakistani government's site, pakgov.org, for example, has been
> defaced by those who claim to be "patriot Indians." There have
> also been reports that Indian hackers have repeatedly tried
> unsuccessfully to hack into the Internet edition of a popular
> moderate Pakistani newspaper called The Dawn. During the recent
> Kargil war, the Indian government had blocked access to The Dawn.

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