Singapore, Nov 8 – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s offical (PMO) and Istana websites were hacked on Thursday and Friday respectively apparently by members of activist group “Anonymous”.
The latest hacking came after Lee vowed that the authorities would spare no effort to bring culprits who launched cyber attacks on the country to justice.
His comments came after a video threatening to hit out at the Singapore government was earlier posted on YouTube.
In a statement Friday, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) said: “A subpage for search on PMO and Istana websites were compromised Thursday at 11.17pm and Friday at 12.20am respectively.
It said a vulnerability in those subpages was exploited to display pages from other sources.
IDA said this vulnerability is known as cross-site scripting.
Saying that the matter is under investigation, IDA said both the PMO and Istana main websites are still working, and “we will restore the compromised pages as soon as possible.”
IDA said it will continue to strengthen all Government websites.
This includes the checking and fixing of vulnerabilities and software patching.
“While this is in progress, visitors to Government websites may experience intermittent problems with access. This will be completed as soon as possible,” IDA added.
– Bernama
