{"id":67768,"date":"2013-01-03T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=67768"},"modified":"2013-01-03T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T11:00:26","slug":"try-hacking-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/67768-try-hacking-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Try hacking this"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early December 2012 three government websites were defaced by hackers, but to date only two of these websites were restored.<\/p>\n

On 9 December 2012 the message \u201cWebsite hacked by H4ksniper\u201d appeared with an animated graphic on three government websites – the Presidential National Commission (PNC), the National Population Unit, and the Department of Social Development.<\/p>\n

Two of these websites were restored soon afterwards (the Presidential National Commission and the Department of Social Development), but the National Population Unit\u2019s website has been down since being defaced.<\/p>\n

Instead of restoring the website and resolving the security problems, the site has simply been removed from the web.<\/p>\n

Internet users trying to visit the \u2018population.gov.za\u2019 website are greeted with a \u201cSITA Inverse Web Proxy Server\u201d message saying that \u201cthe requested URL could not be retrieved\u201d.<\/p>\n

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National Population Unit\u2019s website message<\/p><\/div>\n

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA), which hosts the sites, previously said that no government information was under threat with the security breach.<\/p>\n

\u201cSITA is confident of its work and capacity to secure government information and this remains the bedrock of its operations\u201d, acting CEO Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"Government<\/a>

Government population website hacked message on 9 December 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hackers recently defaced three government websites, and SITA has made one website unhackable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35,17402,4104],"class_list":["post-67768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-headline","tag-khumbudzo-ntshavheni","tag-sita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67798,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67768\/revisions\/67798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}