Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The website of the Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI) has been attacked by a hacker, codenamed
Pablin 77, who breached the administrative access to the regulator’s
server on Saturday and meddled with some of the links on the website.
The hacker is still at large and the telecom regulator has lodged a first information report (FIR) with the police.
Defacing
Indian websites is at an all time high right now, says a report by the
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) which tracks such incidents.
A
total of 1,311 Indian sites were defaced in July 2006 against only 151
in January this year. The recommendations and directions sections on
the website (www.trai.gov.in) when clicked, opened a window saying -
“Pablin 77 was here.”
Pablin 77 is an international hacker who
targets only government websites. In the past, Pablin 77 has attacked
the government websites of Uruguay, Germany, Holland, China, Ethiopia
and most recently on September 24 the website of the Republic of
Philippines Most of the links on the sites were changed to “h4x0r3d --
Pablin77 Was Here!!!”
“The attack on the TRAI website clearly
showed that adequate security measures were not in place. Moreover, the
site was attacked during the holiday weekend to prevent quick response
and thus gain more publicity,” said Trend Micro’s country head, Niraj
Kaushik.
According to Mahindra Special Services Group chief, Capt Raghuraman, there is no ulterior motive in hacking such sites.
“These
are just malicious pranks – like the way people deface walls or
scribble graffiti in elevators. If they really want to show that there
is a crack in the security, they can always send an e-mail but to get
their juvenile kicks out of defacing sites, these pranksters go to
extreme levels,” he explained.
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