Malaysian hackers hacked and defaced Northern Region Civil Air Patrol of U.S. Air Force Domain
In 2013, a group of Malaysian hackers from KamiSecTeam has hacked and defaced the Northern Region Civil Air Patrol of U.S. Air Force official website.
The Civil Air Patrol is a non-profit organisation that represents the official auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
However, the hackers haven’t defaced the home page of the Northeast Region Civil Air Patrol. Instead, they have added their defacement page to http://www.ner.cap.gov , where the CAP stated for Civil Air Portal.
Hackers left an image as a deface page on the hacked website with team’s name “KamiSecTeam” and official logo, but the reason for targeting the site was not mentioned anywhere.
According to by zone-h account, the KamiSecTeam is responsible for hacking over 500 websites from all over the world. However, most of the targets of the hackers appear to be random commercial sites.
In my opinion, U.S. government need to protect their website against hacking attacks by collaboration with other domestic and international companies or overseas governments especially in terms of Information Technology and the Internet to help prevent the occurrence of cyber vandalism. On the other hand, Malaysian government also can provide education to their citizen to prevent the occurrence of cyber vandalism.
Copyright by: Cyber Security Infotech(P) Ltd
It's really surprising fact that is not known by everyone. Thanks for the great info though!
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ReplyDeleteYa..educating people in preventing cyber-attacks is important as we need to identify the root towards this issue.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be true that controls and prevention can become more effective through the collaboration with other parties around the world
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