ICO website hacked

| 12/07/2009

(CNS): The website of the Cayman Islands Information Commissioner has been hacked into for the second weekend in a row. A CNS reader spotted the hacking of the website Saturday morning, and according to Information Commissioner Jennifer Dilbert, this happened last weekend as well.

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  1. Szocske says:

    Thanks for the clarification, I am yet to make myself more familiar with the Caymanian political system.

    And indeed, after a successful restoration on Sunday, by 11:40 local time, now a bogous news item (#6) redirects to google.tr

    Oh, and Kerry, it is quite often not more money that buys you better protection, but (often cheeper) alternatives to what everyone else is using. A bit like biodiversity.

    • Anonymous says:

      The PPM abandoned the E-Advisory Board.

      Please help us UDP develop an Internet Security Policy that will prevent this type of thing from re-occuring.

      • Anonymous says:

        "The PPM abandoned the E-Advisory Board".

        I don’t think the E-business Advisory Board functioned for a number of years before the PPM.  According to the official govt listing there have been no entries in respect of that Board since 2001. There was less need for it after the ICTA was established.  

  2. Anonymous says:

    A quick check shows that the Information Commissioner’s site is NOT hosted on governmental IT systems.

  3. Kerry Horek says:

    Well I can understand this situation.  It appears similar to the hackers who hacked into my website.  It took months for me to find out who had done it.  But my perseverance paid off. 

    I tried to get assistance from the local authorities but no help was available for me.

    I then took my problem overseas and whola, not only did we catch the culprits they squealed on the people who hired them.  What was amazing is that one of the individuals live right here in Grand Cayman and we even adorned them with PR status.  Unbelieveable!!!  The others are now in Federal Court in the US on charges for not only hacking into my website but many others as well.

    I suppose the rest of the world really takes hacking more seriously than we do, or maybe it was just because it was me, a Caymanian Woman Entreprenuer trying to get to the bottom of an injustice she encountered.  I am glad I refused to sit around and wait, but rather taking the stand to grab that bull by the horns and give it a good shaking.

    If your business has a website, protect it with the best possible protection money can buy, because a hacker can be your next door neighbour. 

    • Anonymous says:

      Kerry – if what you say is true report her to the CSPR Board – and if they are doing their job she’ll be gone soon enough.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Szocske, you make sense, but please note although this is a government agency, the site infocomm.ky was not developed by Government IT services, or hosted on Government servers (why is a whole other post!!!). Check the bottom of the page to see who wins the prize for this one.

    Here is the link to the google cached copy of the home page: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:vtuMzGSEmioJ:www.infocomm.ky/+http://www.infocomm.ky/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

     

  5. Anonymous says:

    I wouldn’t call it a simple defacing, as it seems now going to the site automatically redirects the browser to the Turkish google site. I don’t think it’s particularly troubling for other government websites as http://www.infocomm.ky is run by a different server company. It obviously doesn’t speak well to whichever company they are relying on, however.

  6. Laughin says:

    Two weeks in a row! That is quite funny. Somebody didn’t do their job right the first time, let’s see if a third time works. It really isn’t even that hard to do but obviously …

  7. Szocske says:

    Looks like a simple "de-facing". Similar to graffity, the criminal was only interested in publicity, not obtaining or tampering with confifential information. But to fall prey to the same (probably well known and by now automated) attack strongly questions the effectiveness of the IT security measures protecting governmental IT systems. (Starting with their choice of operating system and web server technology)