This morning, Philippines’ Land Transportation Office official website, www.lto.gov.ph was defaced by someone who calls himself iSKORPiTX. The website’s original landing page was replaced with the hacker’s page displaying the waving flag of Turkey.
This is another defacement of Philippines’ government site following the defacement of NEDA official site.
Hmmm.. another script kiddie on the loose? I don’t know - you tell me 
Actually, I have received a notice from one of our hosting providers during the time that the accounts in their servers were compromised. The page shown above is somewhat similar to what we had to one of static sites (no big deal here, no critical operations were being performed on that site). The explanation they gave was they are suspecting a worm or virus of some kind with the capability to sniff FTP accounts especially those that were left unchanged. This kind of activity gives the hacker opportunity to delete and upload files to their will. We changed providers after that.
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An update from http://technogra.ph
Update: We’ve been notified by Aileen Apolo of Google Philippines that the PNP Cybercrime Unit will be handling the case.
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