The official website of the Akwa-Ibom State Government has been hacked by an unknown person that calls himself Xvirus. The website has been defaced and replaced with a page linking to the hacker's Facebook account.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that the websites of Nigerian Governmental Agencies, Ministries and the official website of the Federal Government itself have been hacked. One can recall some months ago when some hackers defaced our official website http://nigeria.gov.ng.
Although this hack attempt will be neutralised once the web developers of the website observe it (which is one of the aims of this write-up), it should be stressed that we need to protect our websites, especially vital and sensitive ones such as the Governmental Websites, from hackers. Vital documents can be stolen, confidential matters laid bare, and a whole lot of other calamities can be conjured by the hackers to unleash mayhem in a myriad of ways upon us and/or our Governments.
It is time for Nigeria to rethink her cyber security. When was the last time we heard that Governmental websites in the U.S. or U.K. were hacked? Are their computers, servers, web-hosts, etc, any different from ours? These nations pay critical attention to cyber security. Infact, when a website belonging to a major movie production company was hacked last year, the United States Government treated the issue as a national security threat and responded pro-actively.
We need to make our websites hack-proof by employing "ethical hackers" (such as myself ) to test websites for exploits and vulnerabilities that may render them hackable. Websites should be hosted on dedicated servers which are procured legitimately and protected from leeching, viruses, illegal RDP connections, etc. Governmental websites must employ SSL certificates and make their connection HTTPS "secure"! Websites must make directory listing impossible and also prevent hotlinking of files. File uploads, if they must be present, should be routed to temporary folders or public directories and should not be in the same directories with vital website files. File extensions must be limited to "PNG", "FLV", "OGG", etc. These extensions are harder to use as "viral masks". Ports should be limited to basic ones like :80, :8080, :2096 and :2082. Ports such as :2222, :53, :21, etc, should be disabled if possible and forwarded if impossible. Daily backups, at best, and weekly backups, at worst, should be carried out on servers and websites. IP blacklisting should be enabled and site hits closely monitored. In fact, I could go on and on on cyber security and would not get tired. However, I have said the most salient points that should be put in place for a "hack-proof website". While no website is "TOTALLY SAFE" from hack attempts, we can minimise their possibilities and make it harder to attempt by blocking all vulnerabilities.
Please we need CHANGE in CYBER SECURITY or else, a terrible hacker shall soon rise and undertake a "cyber-coup" of our Federal Government! All levels of Governments in the country should take note. It should finally be noted that I am simply a student of knowledge and a devout computer "worshipper", I do not claim to be an authority. In essence, my write-up is subject to scrutiny, edits, corrections and what-have-we.



Meanwhile, the hacked website is http://akwaibomstate.gov.ng/ (see screenshot below)
Akwa-Ibom State is the largest oil producing state in Nigeria! Its capital is in the serene and notably neat city of Uyo. The current Governor is Deacon Udom E. Udom.

- Thoughts and Sentiments of Mathias Orhero (literarymathy@gmail.com)

Xvirus noni. but what actually is d point? can it give him more money in anyway? or is he just trying to make a statement?

meanwhile

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Nice one man.. I think most of our Website re hosted on Shared Hosting only few use VPS hosting which is more easier to hack.. I blame the Web developing company for such errors.. But I think hackers should be punished for such an evil act. my thought thou.

Lalasticlala wat ya say?

Hmmmmmmm.

I swear it wasn't me.

hmm, who designed it?


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fratermathy:
The official website of the Akwa-Ibom State Government has been hacked by an unknown person that calls himself Xvirus. The website has been defaced and replaced with a page linking to the hacker's Facebook account.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that the websites of Nigerian Governmental Agencies, Ministries and the official website of the Federal Government itself have been hacked. One can recall some months ago when some hackers defaced our official website http://nigeria.gov.ng.
Although this hack attempt will be neutralised once the web developers of the website observe it (which is one of the aims of this write-up), it should be stressed that we need to protect our websites, especially vital and sensitive ones such as the Governmental Websites, from hackers. Vital documents can be stolen, confidential matters laid bare, and a whole lot of other calamities can be conjured by the hackers to unleash mayhem in a myriad of ways upon us and/or our Governments.
It is time for Nigeria to rethink her cyber security. When was the last time we heard that Governmental websites in the U.S. or U.K. were hacked? Are their computers, servers, web-hosts, etc, any different from ours? These nations pay critical attention to cyber security. Infact, when a website belonging to a major movie production company was hacked last year, the United States Government treated the issue as a national security threat and responded pro-actively.
We need to make our websites hack-proof by employing "ethical hackers" (such as myself ) to test websites for exploits and vulnerabilities that may render them hackable. Websites should be hosted on dedicated servers which are procured legitimately and protected from leeching, viruses, illegal RDP connections, etc. Governmental websites must employ SSL certificates and make their connection HTTPS "secure"! Websites must make directory listing impossible and also prevent hotlinking of files. File uploads, if they must be present, should be routed to temporary folders or public directories and should not be in the same directories with vital website files. File extensions must be limited to "PNG", "FLV", "OGG", etc. These extensions are harder to use as "viral masks". Ports should be limited to basic ones like :80, :8080, :2096 and :2082. Ports such as :2222, :53, :21, etc, should be disabled if possible and forwarded if impossible. Daily backups, at best, and weekly backups, at worst, should be carried out on servers and websites. IP blacklisting should be enabled and site hits closely monitored. In fact, I could go on and on on cyber security and would not get tired. However, I have said the most salient points that should be put in place for a "hack-proof website". While no website is "TOTALLY SAFE" from hack attempts, we can minimise their possibilities and make it harder to attempt by blocking all vulnerabilities.
Please we need CHANGE in CYBER SECURITY or else, a terrible hacker shall soon rise and undertake a "cyber-coup" of our Federal Government! All levels of Governments in the country should take note. It should finally be noted that I am simply a student of knowledge and a devout computer "worshipper", I do not claim to be an authority. In essence, my write-up is subject to scrutiny, edits, corrections and what-have-we.



Meanwhile, the hacked website is http://akwaibomstate.gov.ng/ (see screenshot below)
Akwa-Ibom State is the largest oil producing state in Nigeria! Its capital is in the serene and notably neat city of Uyo. The current Governor is Deacon Udom E. Udom.

Xvirus my nigger

End time hacker.

Okay oo

I need a hacker to hack my sugar mummy's bumbum.

End time hackers

Good help kogi state

Oya bring N78 million make I fix am

Websites like that need good security. The developer needs HOT SLAP

omo see gobe

But why?

So what's my business there? Wait o! Bet why?

endtime hacker Vs endtime website = endtime state

Smarto

Ask the web hoster

yeea...Good one...naija get hot brain niggas.
creative niggas...

I tink d guy deserves an award....naija govt. should train him for more of this in future...

Weldon bro.

so what has the jobless hacker achieved now?

Interesting!

DaPhilosopher:
Websites like that need good security. The developer needs HOT SLAP

Even the white house website was severely hacked.

kul

Defacing a website that has no content? Plus he probably might have used xss

The 'hacker' is not a Hacker. He/she is a Script Kiddie. Honestly, I don't know which IT term has been most abused than the term 'Hacker'.