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Malaysia Today, Aliran websites attacked

The Malaysia Today website has been hacked and defaced. Now it’s simply not downloading as Raja Petra is having difficulty restoring it due to a poor Streamyx connection.

A couple of days ago, the Aliran website came under bombardment with close to 60,000 hits coming from two unknown IP addresses within the space of a few minutes. “The account was being attacked,” said the webhosting network security administrator. As a result, he temporarily disabled the website and and restored it hours later, after blocking those IPs.

On 19 June, Mahathir’s chedet.com website was “locked” because it was deemed to be a “suspected spam blog”. His webmaster was forced to change the domain name from www.chedet.com to test.chedet.com

This is the message on the “new” chedet.com website:

On Friday June 19th, chedet.com was locked by the administration of Bloggers.com for what was termed as “suspected spam blog”. Following that chedet.com has not been able to publish any new posting pending approval by Bloggers.com.

Despite repeated appeals Bloggers.com have yet to “unlock” chedet.com to allow for posting of new comments. Due to this measures have been taken to migrate chedet.com from Bloggers.com in an effort to avoid further disruption, hence the new page set up.

Is this all just a coincidence?

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31 Responses to “Malaysia Today, Aliran websites attacked”

  1. Bro. Anil, who knows one day, ur blog would face the same fate. There’s a malay saying about human characteristic - rambut sama hitam, tapi hati (perut) lain-lain. Yes, look at malaysian hair, black isn’t it, i mean BN men’s hair black and so do BA men’s.
    Another malay saying = mulut pulut hati keladi (words and sweet but the heart is full of s***).
    We can assume, bro. Americans, European, or even Mongolian, or people of other countries don’t bother to hack malaysians’ sites. BUTT, Malaysians in malaysia or staying else where do bother. That’s the product of 50 years of independence and vision to become world class scholars! You see, at the age of 23 the victim of sodomy who begs for scholarship - in 10 or 20 or 30 yrs time should he becomes a leader in malaysia, surely he’ll open malaysia’s a** h***s to be f****** by his superiors. Merely full of s***!

  2. artic turban on July 3rd, 2008 at 12.18am

    anil check this out how the rich get richer, no wonder they want to continue the dinasty, the filth of the father? question is this through own efforts or is it due to father’s influence. malaysians are no more deaf and blind.

  3. No wonder, all of sudden last night, MT stopped responding or sending me materials to read. It kept hanging and was becoming slower and slower…
    But i dont know anything about hacking, so TO HELL with those hackers and DOS attackers, they are simply bloody SORE losers..

    Can’t win the argument and cant face facts, so the only thing they do is attack… SHAME ON ALL THESE b*****s.

  4. How come UMNO’s website is not hacked?? I guess UMNO have beefed up internet security (by using our tax-payers money?). The last time I heard is that UMNO’s web server (allegedly) cost bout RM180 million to secure…(how much) goes to the pockets of the cronies(?)….but with (allegedly) RM100 million in security budget - UMNO web security is definately better then Malaysia today or Malaysiakini.com

  5. RAKYAT know who hacked Malaysia Today, it’s obvious after anwar incident. RAKYAT will send them to HELL FOREVER!

  6. What is even more fishy is the website being hacked, TOGETHER with the slowdown of streamyx.

    I think Malaysia is going into a Virtual State of Emergency.

  7. Phua Kai Lit on July 3rd, 2008 at 8.11am

    Dear Anil

    Heh! Looks like some people are getting desperate.
    “Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free”

    I’m not an expert on IT. But I think one counter-strategy is to set up many mirror sites. Jeff Ooi should be an expert on this.
    You may want to consider setting up mirror sites too.

    Keep up the good work!

  8. ganesan ramiah on July 3rd, 2008 at 8.21am

    Bro Anil please take some precaution cos the … b****** will one day try to deface your website too.Please relay any new news on Malaysia-today as to when its avaiable online.Thanks

  9. raj raman666 on July 3rd, 2008 at 9.03am

    You mean there is a mole in every website planted by BN?
    Well anil i wont be suprised.

    rajraman.I HAVE A DREAM - finally one soul ask whats my dream in People Parliments.(can u join me MR.ANIL for my dream- pls refer to Sodo trivia did you know…(1) in haris ibrahim blog)

    I JUST NEED SOME MORAL SUPPORT FROM YOU ANIL.

  10. There are many these days who think that if they are so “smart” that they can deface a website or deny access to it, they have fought as warriors for their cause, whatever it may be. Punks.

    Not all that different from those who think that if they shout louder, or can pay enough money to get large numbers to shout loudly on their behalf, then they have won. Dissenting views is only met with closed minds.

    If Aliran does not sound sweet to them, then it’s “war”! Bah!

    These punks are also not all that different from those who abuse/abused their positions of power to subvert the cause of justice, castrate the enforcement agencies and even hijack the lawmaking machinery of the nation to the extent of boasting that the Constitution will be changed to legalise their desired way of doing things.

    Justice and fair-play is alien to them. True victory? What’s that?

    Coincidence? About as co-incidental as a massive black-eye after assurances that a person’s safety was not under threat. So there are some “live by the sword” hypocrites who it would seem are now “dying by the sword”.

    And though I do not condone juvenile “warrior” types and their vile deeds, you won’t see me shedding a tear for these just desserts cases.

  11. Hello anil,

    It looks like everybody has now become so dependent on Internet because spceulation, conspiracy and gossips can be spread in here in a swift moment. However we cant blame the government for the locked website. It could be other people doing dirty works to make bad impression for the current government. Since we all are so curious of new informations derived in this cyber world, one could not imagine if people will do anything that could make their objectives achieve. It is either in our beloved country between the government and the oppositon or the third party which would like create chaos in our beloved country. Anyway anil be careful, who knows someday they might hit your website too.

  12. No access to Aliran website. What’s happening, Anil?

  13. Thanks for the alert, Andrew. No idea how that could have happened. Will try and find out.
    cheers
    Anil
    p.s. appreciate all your comments.

  14. Okay its working now. Not sure what went wrong. But it’s fine now.

  15. Thanks Anil. Kept getting internal server error message. Take That’s blog and Malaysia Today gets quite personal, but Aliran?!

  16. Concerned Citizen on July 3rd, 2008 at 4.22pm

    They can block the sites, but the can’t never block the truth. The truth will prevail.

    Malaysia Today is accessible behind a proxy. I have tried and it works. For those who want to read MT, get behind a proxy, but MT last updated was done yesterday. RPK and his men must be having trouble to update it. Sihh……………

  17. This fellow was offered ‘electrical enginnering’ in uniten lah But now dropped out ! He was offered scholarship too ! wow !

  18. MT went on last night but today, it is very slow and seems on and off, meaning it is still being under DOS attack..

    The … cybertrooper is really good at hacking sites that are against them…..

    Super proof of cowards !!!!!

  19. Thats right Sabahfan !!! got the same thing too

  20. Dear Anil,

    I want a scholarship to fund my son’s education. Whom should I look for? Encik Hishamudin, Datuk Najib or the PSD. Guaranteed to get the scholarship if I approach Datuk Najib. and what is the consideration - … to accuse DSAI?

  21. How come UMNO’s website is not hacked??
    …
    Identify and expose … cybertroopers !!!

  22. Hacked, attacked?

    What goes around comes around.

    Recently attended a security seminar in May held by MyNIC.

    Check this link out
    http://www1.mynic.net.my/myseminar/MAY08/seminar.html

    Abu Ubaidah Md Zain , Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission stated that they were working on a project to blacklist malicious website from the DNS server itself.

    At that point, they reported that they’re on testing stages.

    What i’m afraid, they used it against oppositions sites and blogs.
    I know i would if i can’t get rid of them.

    What’s even scarier, are we becoming like China?
    The golden firewall?

    Anil,
    you may not know me but i’m willing to help you (note: i ain’t no security expert) or other bloggers if they need some help hardening their servers or do anything i can.

  23. not to worry when ba take over, the rakyat will propose that mt be made the official website fully funded by the govt with all the security required

  24. they must have done a DOS attack on MT and coordinate that with (a telecom firm) capping RPK’s line speed. Easy to do when they control the backbone infrastructure.

    maybe RPK should try to get some help from the Israelis!

  25. MT is down completely. anyone has an idea what happened?

  26. Dear Simon

    Malaysia Today is being blocked by TMNet. To access Malaysia Today please go here http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008/

  27. thanks for the link.

    UMNO/BN day is numbered.

  28. BN rather not hear the bitter truth, refuse to face the rakyat, therefore more dirty tricks. To all the bloggers who hope and pray that they will change, dream on. BN must be brought to courts and punished, that is if our judges still have any justice left.

  29. Those who sow love will eventually reap love.
    Those who sow goodness will reap even more. Those who sow fear and
    mistrust will reap an unwanted harvest later.

    It’s a basic law of successful living. And powerful enough to change
    a life.

    Umno will pay for the sins they have created, creating and will create.

  30. Anyone have the site to MT?

    Maxis is blocking http://mt.m2day.org also

    This is what I’m getting

    404 Error - Not Found
    The resource you have requested could not be found on the server. There are many possible reasons for this. Either the file does not exist, there is an error in your request, or the file is not accessible in the requested directory. Please verify that:

    * You have used the proper case; requests ARE case-sensitive!
    * You have entered the URL correctly. (i.e. proper directory/filename)
    * You used the FULL URL. (i.e. proper file type: .html, .gif , .jpg, etc.)
    * You use a tilde (~) before user directories. (i.e. http://www.furcen.org/~jurann/ )
    * The user/file still exists on this server.

    Been trying to load since 9:00pm and still unable to get anything

  31. This is getting very very ridiculous.

    Is it possible to start a petition on this? Maybe call it “Bring Back Cyberspace Freedom”.

    The Home Minister and BN is treating Malaysians like …

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