[ISN] Judiciary boosting security after website hacked

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:53:46 -0600 (CST)
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/12/nation/20100112211300&sec=nation

By SHAILA KOSHY
The Star Online
January 12, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR: The Judiciary will be upgrading the security of its court 
computer systems, following a hacking and defacing of its website last 
Thursday.

Security has become crucial with the introduction of e-filing and the 
online management of court documents last year.

According to court sources, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia 
Commission (SKMM) had alerted the judiciary to the hacking Thursday 
night after which the site was taken down.

The hacker, who used the handle .Brainwash,. had issued a threat not to 
pursue with the matter of the Catholic Church using the word .Allah. in 
the Bahasa Malaysia publication of its weekly Herald.

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