Indo-Pak cyber war hots up

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Saturday
23 December 2000

ISLAMABAD: Tempers may be cooling between Pakistan and India on the
Kashmir front, but the regional rivalry seems to be hotting up in
cyberspace, according to press reports Friday.

Pakistani daily The News said top Pakistani computer experts have
ridiculed rival Indians' claim that an Indian professional had hacked
Pakistan's official website and blocked its front page. ``This shows
how professional Indians are ... They even don't know the official
website of Pakistan,'' the newspaper quoted Fakhr Hameed, webmaster of
the official site, as saying.

On Thursday a message put on the site, www.pakgov.org, declared that
``this site has been hacked by an Indian IT professional with the sole
objective of trying to get the message across to Pakistani hackers to
keep their hands off Indian websites.''

Pakistan's official site is www.pak.gov.pk. Government sites are
registered as gov. and not org, the newspaper said. Hameed said the
Indians created the fictitious Pakistan official site and then posted
on it the hacking claim.

``No one can dare hack Pakistan's official site. No one has ever
hacked it. But we know that hundreds of hackers, probably pro-India,
had tried to enter into our domain but never succeeded,'' he said.
``They even cannot crash our servers, what to talk of entering into
our domain,'' he added.

A Pakistani IT professional was quoted by the newspaper as saying that
``the Indian farce'' followed the hacking of some official Indian
sites by pro-Pakistan hackers a few days ago.(DPA)

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