{"id":78698,"date":"2013-05-26T09:07:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T07:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=78698"},"modified":"2013-05-27T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T06:27:33","slug":"hack-attack-gov-brings-in-own-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78698-hack-attack-gov-brings-in-own-hackers.html","title":{"rendered":"Hack attack: Gov brings in own hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Information Technology Agency (<a title=\"SITA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313647-State-Information-Technology-Agency-(SITA)\">SITA<\/a>) has brought in its own hackers to protect government websites against international cyber-attacks. This is according to a report in the City Press newspaper on 26 May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Last week (17 May 2013) it was reported that a hacker was able to <a title=\"SAPS website hacked, sensitive info leaked: reports\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78382-saps-website-hacked-sensitive-info-leaked-reports.html\">breach the security of the South African Police Service (SAPS) website. <\/a>The hacker leaked leaked personal information of thousands of people who reported crimes to SAPS through its online system.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker used a simple SQL injection attack to get hold of data stored in the database of the SAPS website. This raised serious questions about the security of state websites.<\/p>\n<p>According to the City Press report, state websites are vulnerable to cyber-attacks, and the SAPS hack may only be a taste of what is to come.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlighted another security problem, this time with the City of Johannesburg\u2019s credit management system.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, it could access sensitive information through this system, which included key details about account holders.<\/p>\n<p>SITA general manager <a title=\"Daniel Mashao\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/532261-Daniel-Mashao\">Daniel Mashao<\/a> admitted security problems with state websites. He said that they will ensure that any sensitive information is encrypted before being transmitted to where it will be stored securely.<\/p>\n<p>SITA executive for ICT service delivery Mmakgosi Mosupi told the City Press that they are reviewing the security mechanisms of all the government websites it hosted.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SAPS website hacking<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78516-saps-website-hacker-interviewed.html\"><strong>SAPS website hacker interviewed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"No confidential data leaked in website hack: SAPS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78476-no-confidential-data-leaked-in-website-hack-saps.html\"><strong>No confidential data leaked in website hack: SAPS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78382-saps-website-hacked-sensitive-info-leaked-reports.html\"><strong>SAPS website hacked, sensitive info leaked: reports<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/77814-spyware-servers-in-south-africa-the-plot-thickens.html\"><strong>Spyware servers in South Africa: the plot thickens<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SITA brings in own hackers to protect government websites from international cyber-attacks, says report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17896,19584,35,2446,4104],"class_list":["post-78698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-city-press","tag-daniel-mashao","tag-headline","tag-saps","tag-sita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78698"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78700,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78698\/revisions\/78700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}