Act Locally, Pwn Globally

Act Locally, Pwn Globally
Jeffrey Carr, 2009-03-27

On December 24, 2008, the Pakistani Whackerz Cr3w defaced a part of India's critical infrastructure, the Eastern Railway system Web site. The defacement appeared on a scroll feed which read: “Cyber war has been declared on Indian cyberspace by Whackerz- Pakistan (24 Dec-2008).”

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Act Locally, Pwn Globally 2009-03-29
Kris

Great article! The solutions are going to be very difficult to enact in the current environment, it seems to me. Even if enacted, how do you get a step ahead of these guys?...

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Act Locally, Pwn Globally 2009-04-06
Anonymous

Simply put, you can't keep ahead of them, they are the true cat in this chase of cat and mouse...

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Critical National Infrastructure? 2009-04-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

Why do you classify a railway website as Critical National Infrastructure? What effect would it have on India if this web infrastructure was disconnected completely? None? Hype about so-called cyberwar is one reason it is difficult to get hard-nosed business people trying to make a living on the thi...

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Re: Critical National Infrastructure? 2009-04-17
Anonymous

re classifying a railroad website as critical national infrastructure, I think that is arguably appropriate. I personally depend on the web for scheduling and other travel information, and railroads are a (the?) major transportation means for the Indian subcontinent. Would voice telephone access t...

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RE: Act Locally, Pwn Globally 2009-04-13
sunjester

Sorry this is a bit off topic from the original story but you mentioned false WHOIS info. This is so true. In fact until i even bought or operated a website with "security" in it's title i had false info, not for mailicious resons, not it wasnt pure intentions either.

After i bought a website con...

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