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South African ISP ups security after hacker attack |
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
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Some 100 South African Web sites were defaced in an attack on 21 January by a Turkish-based hacker, but Internet service provider (ISP) Web Africa says it is now better prepared to deal with future threats.
The ISP confirmed the attack, after the hacker, “one7”, posted a list of defaced sites on http://www.zone-h.org/, a hacker “brag site”. This follows a similar attack in September, when hackers defaced about 750 domains hosted by Web Africa. The latest attack, says Web Africa MD Mathew Tagg, was carried out using an aspx scripting vulnerability. “Web Africa views security issues as top priority. We employ Shavlik patch management systems to ensure patches are distributed timeously across dozens of Windows servers we manage locally and abroad,” says Tagg |