So now I’m an enemy of the state?  Chanced by this post on ISAW (Internet Security And Warfare):

The Sassy Lawyer

(houseonahill.net), J Spot (jangelo.i.ph), PCIJ (pcij.org) and

Albrine (alberttagaban.com) are victims of hack attacks! Attacks that

aim to stop them from posting what they believe is right. These attacks

are tantamount to assasinations of media people to silence them.

We should not take this lightly as the above bloggers are not the only

victims of the attacks but everyone of us in the blogging world. We

should work together to pin down the attackers, the government is

useless in running after them for who knows maybe some of the attacks

are even sanctioned by them.

Did you notice the timing of the attack

against the PCIJ blog?

We could not trust the useless agencies tasked by the President to go

after the hackers. We should be the one going after them and hacking

them in return.

I

agree with cyber-friar that we should actively condemn these attacks if indeed sanctioned by

government.  The PCIJ blog hacking was indeed

very timely, as it was done at about the time when President Arroyo was

making her apology speech.

The PCIJ Blog has

had an extensive coverage of every issue hounding the Administration,

to the point of providing transcripts and copies of the audio

recordings of the most recent scandal dubbed Gloriagate (but which I prefer to call Wiretapgate).  Sassy Lawyer is likewise known to post on current issues, and providing commentaries (often critical ones).  But while Albrine

and I have been posting with occasional references to political and

governance issues, we are not overly and overtly critical of the

Administration.  In fact, I usually only present outlines of known

issues, leaving the readers to make their own opinions.  In short,

I don’t think my writings would merit a crack attack sanctioned by

government.

But this is quite an interesting conspiracy theory.  Bring ‘em all down so their voices could be silenced, eh?

At any rate, I can say that the timing of the attack on my site was

probably coincidential.  The system had a security loophole which

was likely already well-known to the hacking community.  Try

searching google for /blogcms/forum/install.php and my site would come up as the first result (of course, we cleared our system of all known vulnerabilities already).

But with this hole probably already known to hackers even

beforehand, why did the cracker choose June 23 and 24 to attack my site?

(via Cyberbaguioboy)

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