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RAAF computers hacked over Indian student attacks

by thomps | July 16, 2009 at 04:30 am

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An Indian Student or Hacker what to say hacked RAAF Websites. The Air Force has confirmed its external website was hacked this week. The Message left over there is to stop attacks on Indian students in Australia.

A Message also contains that if it will not stop he will damage whole server......

Well in my view his fight is right but way is wrong.....

The hacker identified himself as Atul Dwivedi, saying that unless the government complied "I will pawn all your cyber properties like this one''.

The incident follows a series of attacks on Indian students in Australia, attracting global media coverage and strong condemnation from within India.

A defence spokesman confirmed the break-in took place some time in the period July 13-14, forcing it to take the entire RAAF website offline for some seven to eight hours.

It was replaced with a message saying the site was unavailable because of technical difficulties. The site has now been restored.

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iambest

at 05:41 on July 16th, 2009

Good Work Atul Dwivedi..!!

georgejforeman

at 08:03 on July 16th, 2009

I'm pretty sure this student will get hired by RAAF later on. Like, not pretty sure, more like, totally absolutely certain.

Amy Judd

at 10:32 on July 16th, 2009

Scary!

neilabraham

at 05:49 on July 17th, 2009

Racism is an issue in some areas of Australia, but it should not be viewed as the typical Australian position. Australians are normally very friendly. They embrace people from all cultures and want everyone to have a "Fair Go".

I myself enjoy meeting people of different cultures and let us not forget that Indians cook some of the best food on the planet and should be saluted for that!

However, hacking into computer systems to make a point is never the answer. That's plain wrong.

Perhaps he should have established Facebook support groups like "Click here if you support Indian Students" or "Lets get 10,000 people here who support foreign students in Australia" then send an email to a newspaper and get the word out.

MThinks (not verified)

at 08:02 on July 17th, 2009

Although, the message displayed says an Indian hacked it, it is yet to be proven who actually did it. Unless RAAF comes out with logs showing the IP / location of hack, it is early to say the hacker was really Indian.

Here is one of what it could be:

1) The hacker was really Indian
2) The hacker was an anti Indian, also non aussie
3) It could be a aussie prank

The intent, could be/was likely, to add fuel to the fire.

In any case, it does not help, if it was done by an Indian to show his protest.

Thanks

India

neilabraham

at 13:28 on July 17th, 2009

Good point MThinks of India. You are right - if we found out where the hacker's IP address was located, we still couldn't verify his nationality from that - it could still be anyone living anywhere doing this, but obviously with some unknown motivation. I guess if they catch him and drag him through the courts then we'll find out.