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Indian telecom watchdog website hacked
Sufia Tippu
Thursday, 05 October 2006 12:39
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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