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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Colombo Telegraph Was Hacked
The
Colombo Telegraph website was hacked last night, apparently by a group
sympathetic to the Syrian regime.
The Colombo Telegraph technical
team quickly resolved this, though some users may continue to experience issues
for a while longer. We thank our readers for their patience and support through
tweets and emails sent to us.
The attackers exploited a security flaw in one Word
Press plugin to gain access to the website. Once they gained access they
retrieved the database credentials of the system and updated three articles of
the website. The changes in the articles consisted in forcing the redirection of
the web browser to the attacker’s website.
According
to their website, http://syrian-es.org/indexs/ the SEA (Syrian Electronic Army)
attacks websites that publish content against Syria Government. But it is
unclear what articles they were targeting in the Colombo Telegraph.
Last
couple of months Colombo Telegraph technical team stopped attacks against
Colombo TelegraphWikiLeaks related
database originated from a server in the Amazon Cloud. Our technical team says
attackers wanted just to deface the site.
“In
December 2011 and intermittently in November 2011, Colombotelegraph.com, a news
and commentary website run by exiled Sri Lankan journalists, was also blocked
with absolutely no justification provided by authorities,but is accessible as of
early 2012.” the Freedom House, US based an independent
watchdog said in its report on Freedom on the Net 2012. Click here to
read the report.
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