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[Ronzkie23]

‘Show me your I.D.’: Malacanang sets up e-Checkpoint on Palace website
Jing Garcia, InterAksyon.com · Thursday, October 4, 2012 · 4:34 pm

MANILA, Philippines — The Palace on Thursday, put in place a “security checkpoint” on the Official Gazette website to counter any sort of cyber attacks, which the government homepage has been experiencing for the past couple of days.

Watch the video below and see how the Official Gazette homepage checks the user’s browser before it is allowed to access the government site:


From defacement of home pages to distributed denial of service attack or better known in the cyber world as DDOS attack, government agency websites have been rendered useless by what seem to be moves perpetuated by local hacking groups in protest against the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which was recently signed into law by President Aquino.

On Wednesday morning, government websites such as that of the National Bureau of Investigation, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Health, Senate, Social Security System, and the Official Gazette — all suspected to be victims of an orchestrated DDOS attack — were inaccessible to Internet users –

DDoS is a form of cyber attack used by hacking groups to take down particular websites, which involves overwhelming the website’s server by executing external commands from a number of terminals, subsequently crippling the server indefinitely.

Malacañang, however, denied that the Official Gazette was under a DDoS attack, saying heightened interest for the controversial bill was the reason for the surge in the website’s server requests.

Nonetheless, the Palace took no chances and put a layer of protection on its official website provided by CloudFlare, a startup web performance and security company, based in San Francisco.

The said security company, however, suffered its own security breach last May 2012, when hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked the Gmail account of the company’s CEO Matthew Prince, as well as gaining access to CloudFlare’s customers.

Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/infotech/...palace-website

[Ronzkie23]

[mrrob2001]

SOTTO is really an entertainer. He just entertained not just the whole Philippines with this Libel clause in Anti-Cybercrime Law but the whole world.

[adminroot]

mas maayo kung ang ngan kay 10175 Correctional Institute

unya ang ngan sa mga bagong brigada kay BRIGADA FACEBOOK, BRIGADA TWITTER, BRIGADA ISTORYA.NET...etc...etc...

ang mga mayores ang mga ADMIN sa site wahahaha

[kageron]

this is another cancerous law. Since we all know the outcome no one can stop and idea and stop someone from there opinions. The government has come up with something silly and stupid. Think about what other countries would react on this samot tag ka look down nila tabla pay ni evolve ta pabalik sa dark age.

I wonder were is democracy, liberty and freedom now about this law. Plus they think they can measure the internet which is a very wide kind of field. This law is for self benefits IMHO and it's more like of a dictatorial one that has an arrogant side.

Why would they want to limit someone who wants to learn the internet. Para "like" ra big issue? Samot na tingalig "disklike" some basis of this law is purely hidden with greed and idiocy.

Bayan kong tanging ikaw ma salbar pa kaha ka??

[circles122345]

murag balingbing..ehehehe
panalagma nalang na iya...

[stjohnmedrano]

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[stjohnmedrano]

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[adminroot]

‘Show me your I.D.’: Malacanang sets up e-Checkpoint on Palace website
Jing Garcia, InterAksyon.com · Thursday, October 4, 2012 · 4:34 pm

katawanan man kaayo ni ilang gibuhat sa ilang website uy....dispirado kaayo nga move naa pay checkpoint wahahahahaha

mao ra siguro ni nga website akong nakitan nga ingani ang klasi sa security feature nila

makagasto man gani ug 50million/yr sa ilang cyber2x law, pag secure lang sa website tinamban hahahaha

sunod ani naa nay E-SIKYO

[zereflai]

ang igo man gyud ani kay ang mga journalist

dapat lang gyud be responsible in anything you say, post, like and share.

If you feel its right pwede ra gyud kaayo na.