The Hacker have been caught
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MisterLim001
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why can't they hire him as part of his sentencing?
Wolfmaster
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i think he is out to test the talent that IDA have......
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he is nothing more than a petty vandal who defaced a few websites...
as if the various agencies would admit that they were taken off line by this one individual...
and it is not as if he got into the in house databases that certain ministries that he should be concerned abt... *coughmhacough*
but nope, he had a personal agenda against a ST Editor... *notimpressed
as if the various agencies would admit that they were taken off line by this one individual...
and it is not as if he got into the in house databases that certain ministries that he should be concerned abt... *coughmhacough*
but nope, he had a personal agenda against a ST Editor... *notimpressed
These people do not have a creditability. Otherwise they would not name themselves hacker!
Loner can never win a group of experts.
When PC goes onto a network. It is always track able. Is a matter of cost/effort and worth to do it or not.
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the guy who hacked the istana website just issued something on the real singapore.
haha he said he did not hack the site, he was just "testing" it. is this guy for real?! how old already. still "curious and mischievous". some ppl really say the weirdest things to get a get out of jail card.
haha he said he did not hack the site, he was just "testing" it. is this guy for real?! how old already. still "curious and mischievous". some ppl really say the weirdest things to get a get out of jail card.
He is calling himself as tester and not hacker?
rotiboyz
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Will never happen
I guess the real issue is why these systems are not timely maintained to prevent this to happen. It all voice down to we do not have the right people with right skill to do these jobs.
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as systems designs go, usability and security are interlinked
more secure means less usability
you can't cover all the possible vulnerabilities. It would make it outright unusable for users to administer the content.
furthermore, given the motivation AND rewards. Any system can be attacked by intruders or taken down via DDOS attacks.
you may think that for security (or face) that government sites be made nigh impenetrable. Then we might as well take it all off the global web. Nothing is safer than intranet. Although that does not mean it is 100% safe either, a person can still attack it just that they have to do it within the local network itself.
Besides, it is not as if he accessed the top secret databases in the ministries. Now if he managed to do that. News of his arrest will not be made public. He will be "hired" for good...
an intrusion onto the site's CMS does not warrant such a heavy response
as systems designs go, usability and security are interlinked
more secure means less usability
you can't cover all the possible vulnerabilities. It would make it outright unusable for users to administer the content.
furthermore, given the motivation AND rewards. Any system can be attacked by intruders or taken down via DDOS attacks.
you may think that for security (or face) that government sites be made nigh impenetrable. Then we might as well take it all off the global web. Nothing is safer than intranet. Although that does not mean it is 100% safe either, a person can still attack it just that they have to do it within the local network itself.
Besides, it is not as if he accessed the top secret databases in the ministries. Now if he managed to do that. News of his arrest will not be made public. He will be "hired" for good...
an intrusion onto the site's CMS does not warrant such a heavy response
Sure! But not for those already known and published security risk. The hole should be patched asap!
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All said and done, James is just a wannabe hacker with previous petty criminal records. May be better than you and me, but still a wannabe hacker. While it may be said that Singapore goverment IT guys are useless to allow such breaches (relative minor, tbh, as somone pointed out) to happen; that James the erstwhile godlike hacker was caught relatively fast by the same useless folks tells it all, so fast that people who had spoke highly of his godlike power was just as quick to then u-turn and trot out the theory that he was just a plant or fallguy to have been nabbed that quickly. The real hackers you read about... even FBI CIA and whatnot needed months and years before they get their man. And yeah when those hackers are caught, they may be pressed back into security services for their sharp mind, unlike James who now is alleging mental problem as defence in court.
That "IT Consultant" who was "testing" Istana *facepalm* Someone please test the next shipment of cane on his bottom.
From your friendly neighbourhood centre-right republican-voter
That "IT Consultant" who was "testing" Istana *facepalm* Someone please test the next shipment of cane on his bottom.
From your friendly neighbourhood centre-right republican-voter
cancer81
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afaik. Government agencies run their systems through vulnerability checks quite routinely.
But for content management modules (commonly called CMS) for a site, it is hard to plug the gaps.
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