[iwar] Pak claims Indian hackers blocked Govt web site

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Date: 2002-06-29 01:51:32


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Pak claims Indian hackers blocked Govt web site 
PTI 
Islamabad, June 29 

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Pakistani officials have claimed that Indian hackers
blocked a government information web site by launching
a DoS attack. 
The website www.Pak.Gov.Pk hosted by the Information
Ministry has been blocked for the past three days by
Indian hackers through the elementary Denial of
Service (DoS) attack, the 'Dawn' daily quoted the
officials as saying. 

Director in the Information Secretary's office,
Rasheed, however, said "the web site is inaccessible
because the server of the ISP is down. The ISP is
trying to change the server." 

The report said the blocking of the site which
provides basic information about Pakistan and links
various government websites was the latest in a series
of attacks in the current cyber warfare between
hackers of the two countries. 

IT experts in the ministry claimed the web site was
choked by DoS attack, launched through the Yaha Worm
virus by the Indians, according to the report. 

The Internet Service Provider which maintains the web
site was rated as poor by an independent organisation,
the daily said adding "the report about poor service
of the ISP was received by the Science and Technology
Ministry on Friday". 

Officials in Pakistan's Ministry of Science and
Technology said the Information Ministry lacked in
technical expertise to protect the web site from
professional hackers. 

DoS attacks involve flooding target computers with
false requests for information, overloading the
machines' capacity to respond leading to denial of
service to legitimate users, the report said. 


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