{"id":45358,"date":"2013-01-11T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=45358"},"modified":"2013-01-11T11:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T03:59:15","slug":"case-study-on-pa-websites-hacking-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/case-study-on-pa-websites-hacking-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study on PA websites hacking incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just received information on the<a href=\"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/hightech-brazil-hackteam-claimed-responsibility-for-hacking-of-pa-website\/\" target=\"_blank\"> case where Singapore People&#8217;s Association (PA) website (and 15 of its affiliated websites) being hacked by the HighTech Brazil HackTeam<\/a>. Based on the case study, it shows the vulnerabilities of the CMS used by the sites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/case-study-on-pa-websites-hacking-incident\/pa-site-hacked-case-study\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45359\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45359\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/case-study-on-pa-websites-hacking-incident\/pa-site-hacked-case-study\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?fit=564%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"564,302\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pa-site-hacked-case-study\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?fit=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?fit=564%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45359\" alt=\"pa-site-hacked-case-study\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?resize=564%2C302\" width=\"564\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?w=564&amp;ssl=1 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the case study, the HighTech Brazil HackTeam targeted various vulnerabilities in the following content management systems used by the websites.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joomla 1.5&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Joomla 1.7<\/li>\n<li>WordPress 3.1.3<\/li>\n<li>WordPress 3.3.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems that the scripts to exploit these websites can be found on forums. That means it does not require much skills to deploy them. There are other technical details which I am not able to fully understand. Please follow the link if you are interested.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledge-republic.com\/CRM\/2012\/12\/case-study-on-www-pa-gov-sg-being-hacked-by-hightech-brazil-hackteam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to read\u00a0 the Case Study on www.pa.gov.sg being hacked by HighTech Brazil HackTeam<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Actually I am curious the intention of these Hacktivists. If they are capable of defacing websites, I believe they can use other means to promote their causes (legally, of course).<\/p>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received information on the case where Singapore People&#8217;s Association (PA) website (and 15 of its affiliated websites) being hacked by the HighTech..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,61,14],"tags":[9618,1088,9365,9366,9364,9369,9368,7424,2413,9367,350,278],"class_list":["post-45358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information","category-local","category-techie","tag-case-study","tag-hack","tag-hackers","tag-hacking","tag-hacktivism","tag-hightech-brazil-hackteam","tag-imperva","tag-joomla","tag-pa","tag-peoples-association","tag-website","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pa-site-hacked-case-study.jpg?fit=564%2C302&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-bNA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45362,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358\/revisions\/45362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}