ANCYL website in March 2011 <\/a>. They also claimed responsibility for last week Sunday\u2019s hack and a hack that hadn\u2019t been reported in the media that added a comments section to the website.<\/p>\n\u201cOur Hacks are the ones that look like they are part of the website,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n
According to a {Blah} {Blah} representative, who is also the hacker credited with the first defacement of the ANCYL website, they breached the security of the ANCYL webserver by exploiting a vulnerability in a website that was hosted on the same server.<\/p>\n
An attack known as local file inclusion (LFI) was used to get the database password of the vulnerable website, which {Blah} {Blah} said turned out to be the same password needed to access the backend systems which yielded them the database password for the ANCYL server.<\/p>\n
With access to the database, the hacker was able to place a false post announcing the resignation of Julius Malema.<\/p>\n
The hacker said that Unwembi has since fixed this vulnerability.<\/p>\n
Unwembi didn\u2019t comment on whether this was the case by the time of publication, but an independent security expert who wished to remain anonymous confirmed that the site from which the original attack was staged appears to have been moved to a different server.<\/p>\n
The security expert also said that the details of the attack sounded legitimate as many sites on shared hosts get hacked due to the fact that a vulnerability in one can expose them all to attack.<\/p>\n
The approach detailed by {Blah} {Blah} also sounds plausible and likely, the expert said, adding that the claims can\u2019t be proven without confirmation from Unwembi.<\/p>\n
Hactivism 101<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a recent post from their Twitter account, the group responded to Shivambu\u2019s allegations that the attacks come from \u201cright-wing white people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFloyd seriously White and Right Wing. Wrong and Wrong again,\u201d the tweet stated. \u201cWe are not promoting a racist agenda we are instead protesting against stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about their motivations for the hacks, the {Blah} {Blah} Protest Group said that they really love South Africa and could not sit idly by when someone is blatantly trying to incite violence and racial tension.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we discussed a simple plan to let people see what kind of a person Julius really is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan involved using slapstick humour to talk about the issues, \u201cHence \u2018Blah Blah\u2019,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n
According to {Blah} {Blah} the ANCYL site is still vulnerable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to provide relevant thought-provoking humour on the ANCYL website until such time as common sense finds its way back into that organization,\u201d the {Blah} {Blah} Protest Group said.<\/p>\n
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