India – Pakistan in State of Cyber War
In response to an action by HMG, Indian script kiddie, who hacked OGRA’s website, A Pakistani Group called PCA (Pakistan Cyber Army) has reportedly hacked at least five Indian websites including http://www.ongcindia.com/ – Indian Oil and Natural Gas website.
Other websites which were hacked by Pakistanis include
http://www.syscontech.in/
http://www.iirs.gov.in/
http://www.ctram.indianrail.gov.in/
http://www.kvrtm.org.in/
I got a chance to speak with PCA, who confirmed that their group knew this web-server for last two years which is hosting most of Indian Government Websites, but they never hacked it, despite it was never a big deal for them. PCA was of the view that they are not criminals and bear no bad intentions for anyone, but they could not see Pakistani websites getting hacked by Indians; so they had to hack these Indian websites.
PCA left following message on http://www.ongcindia.com/
This is a message from PCA for HMG(script_kiddies) in return to the ogra defacement.
Backoff , go read some course books else you will loose both , your name and this game.
We will literally SMOKE YOUR DOORS OFF like other groups did before.
This is just a warning to Indian authorities either
to launch inquiry against HMG or get ready for more action.
We were sleeping but not Dead.
Now Face the consequences
HAroon + HAmza + ABunasar
Naveed + Hassan
Pakistan ZindaBad
PCA asked Indian authorities to take action against HMG (the group that hacked OGRA’s website). The most notable part of this defacement is
This is just a warning to Indian authorities either to launch inquiry against HMG or get ready for more action
As I mentioned in my previous post that OGRA’s website was hacked by a Indian Script kiddes, who was actually not aware of the consequences. But his little mistake may fan the fire of cyber war between India and Pakistan. Exactly the same was as it happened before; meaning that a little mistake is going to lead us to a situation which can damage both countries’ websites.
Previously, both countries remained in state of cyber war during 1997 to 2002. From Pakistan’s side the war was fought by Dr. Nuker, the founder of PHC “Pakistan Hackers Club” and MFRD, founder of G-force. These two groups were responsible for defacing hundreds of Indian websites, and broke all previous records of cyber war history. Both of the Pakistani Groups then settled issues with NEO, an Indian hacker to conclude that 5 years running Cyber war.
By Muhammad Ali Raza. © 2008 Pro Pakistani – All Rights Reserved
Shared by: Zeeshan
SAWJ’s Note: PCA’s stance is right but I hope this ends right here and doesn’t lead to “cyber tensions” between the two countries!
Reconditioned Blog
Saturday, November 15th, 2008If you tried to visit my blog this morning, you may have faced problems. That’s because I was facing problems.
Well first of all, my blog’s been under attack from spambots for a very long time. They edit my scripts and insert spam code in them that redirects to some phishy website. Most of you may have experienced this. I have been changing my server file and folder permissions for a long time but they manage to edit my .htaccess file and rechange the permissions to suit themselves. The result is the return of spam within a few weeks, if not a couple of days. So I contacted my hosting to ask them how it was happening and they told me it was a vulnerability in my script, not from their side. Even my other sites that don’t use Wordpress have been spammed and one was blocked by Google! I let them know of this.
Finally today, they replied to me stating that my .htaccess file was corrupt. They provided me a link to download an anti-Malware program to see if there was Malware on my computer, hacking my data (I did find one infection). They deleted my .htaccess file too due to which most of my blogs pages could not be accessed as I use Permalinks (URL Rewrite) for my pages. So I decided that it was high time I did some serious work on my blog.
I updated my scripts, set extremely strict file permissions that don’t even allow me to read the contents of my server folders but after I rebuilt my sitemap. Now ‘SAWJ Blogs…’ is back at the top of Google results!
(No Saad, it wasn’t blacklisted! One of my other domains was, but I rarely used it so I have deleted it’s contents.)
Let me know if you guys still face problems with my blog. (I know, I would’ve had less troubles with a blogging-service-hosted blog but hell, I wouldn’t have learned so much then!)
And for the record, I’ll be disabling the Threaded Comments plugin from the next post. It means that you would not be able to understand the order of the comments on the previous posts as they will be hap-hazard and you won’t be able to make out “who replied to who”. Do recommend a better plugin if you can or give me the address to the Follow Up Comments Notification plugin.
Have Fun!
15.11.2008 Internet, Me, Web Development 115 Comments