Pak group' hacks, defaces DU, IIT-D, AMU websites
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The websites of three top educational institutions -Delhi University , Aligarh Muslim University and IIT, Delhi -and National Aeronautics Limited were hacked and defaced on Tuesday by a group claiming to be a Pakistani hacker collective.Police said that they would register a case under sections of the IT Act once they receive the complaint. Cops suspect that the hackers might have been based in a European country .
The group which calls itself `Pakistani Haxors CREW' left a message on their home pages saying their actions were carried out to express “solidarity“ with the people of Kashmir. They also accused the Army of atrocities.
The defaced webpages also played a popular underground song with risque lyrics in the background. It also featured two videos. One was a five and a half minute clipping from what appeared to be a documentary , and was uploaded on to YouTube in Feb ruary 2012. The other video was a slideshow of images and titled “Indians Brutality In Kashmir!“ At least one image in this slideshow was from Manipur.
“This hack is in response to Code-Man's hack of railways.gov .pk...and in the solidarity of (sic) innocent Kashmiri People being killed by Indian Army! Thank you, Regards PHC“. The identity of “Code-Man“ and herhis motivations for hacking the Pakistan railways website are not yet clear. At the time of writing, railways.gov .pk appeared to be functioning smoothly .
The hackers wrote on the NAL website that they did not steal or damage the website and had hacked it only to send a message. The group also posted about its exploits on its Facebook page. Speaking to TOI, Kalyan Bhattacharjee, office of the director, IIT-Delhi said that “their own server was secure while the server of Education and Research Network (ER NET), an autonomous scien tific society of the ministry of communications and information technology , had been hacked.“ ERNET has IIT-D's domain server.
DU registrar Tarun Kumar said that the university's website was inaccessible from outside the campus for some time since the domain name servers was pointing incorrectly to another site. “The problem was detected and immediately rectified by contacting ERNET, who has provided the domain name for University of Delhi,“ he said.ABVP national media convener Saket Bahuguna hit out the Delhi University administration. “DU cannot manage even one website. Yet they are talking about conducting online examinations this year,“ he said.
The group which calls itself `Pakistani Haxors CREW' left a message on their home pages saying their actions were carried out to express “solidarity“ with the people of Kashmir. They also accused the Army of atrocities.
The defaced webpages also played a popular underground song with risque lyrics in the background. It also featured two videos. One was a five and a half minute clipping from what appeared to be a documentary , and was uploaded on to YouTube in Feb ruary 2012. The other video was a slideshow of images and titled “Indians Brutality In Kashmir!“ At least one image in this slideshow was from Manipur.
“This hack is in response to Code-Man's hack of railways.gov .pk...and in the solidarity of (sic) innocent Kashmiri People being killed by Indian Army! Thank you, Regards PHC“. The identity of “Code-Man“ and herhis motivations for hacking the Pakistan railways website are not yet clear. At the time of writing, railways.gov .pk appeared to be functioning smoothly .
The hackers wrote on the NAL website that they did not steal or damage the website and had hacked it only to send a message. The group also posted about its exploits on its Facebook page. Speaking to TOI, Kalyan Bhattacharjee, office of the director, IIT-Delhi said that “their own server was secure while the server of Education and Research Network (ER NET), an autonomous scien tific society of the ministry of communications and information technology , had been hacked.“ ERNET has IIT-D's domain server.
DU registrar Tarun Kumar said that the university's website was inaccessible from outside the campus for some time since the domain name servers was pointing incorrectly to another site. “The problem was detected and immediately rectified by contacting ERNET, who has provided the domain name for University of Delhi,“ he said.ABVP national media convener Saket Bahuguna hit out the Delhi University administration. “DU cannot manage even one website. Yet they are talking about conducting online examinations this year,“ he said.
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