Experts review DPR hacking sites to become a ‘traitorous council of the people’



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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

House of Representatives website (DPR), that is to say dpr.go.id it had experienced paralysis so it could not be accessed. This condition is believed to be the result direct by parties who do not agree with the ratification of the Labor Copyright Act by DPR.

The main page of the DPR website, which should have read “House of Representatives,” changed to “Dewan Traitors to the People.” Currently, the DPR website is accessible again.

A cybersecurity observer from CISSRec, Pratama Persadha, said that the hacking that occurred on the DPR website was a possible practice. disfigure, that is, changing the words “representative” to “traitor”.



“Then a few moments down and the DPR IT team may respond immediately and fix it. However, soon after, the DPR website returned to normal, “Pratama told CNNIndonesia..with, Thursday (8/10).

Primary explains disfigure in website it’s a trick for a website and change their appearance. These changes can cover the entire page or in certain sections.

For example, he said, font website replaced, annoying advertisements and changes to the general content of the page appear. Not only that, deface the website often done for initial safety tests website.

“Since disfigure Hackers could dig deep and take various actions, such as modifying data, as news portal sites Tirto and Tempo recently experienced, “he said.

In addition, the Primary said that there are several purposes for a person or group to do disfigure. Action deface the website often done to show security website the weak. Besides that, it is also a way to convey socio-political messages that are commonly called hacktivist.

Usually, Pratama said again, these efforts were carried out by slipping provocative messages on website objective. For example, in the case website Telkomsel, which on its cover contains a protest about data prices being too expensive.

“For the DPR website on the homepage only one word was changed from ‘representative’ to ‘traitor’. The target of hacktivists is usually website government and also website others that will attract public attention if they are hacked, “said Pratama.

Principal add hack website it can happen to website which has a security hole. Some of them are credential login weak, lacks SSL certificate, antivirus and firewall not active, until you use the theme and plug the vulnerable.

More than that, Primary said the best way to prevent hacking is to increase the level of security website. For example, perform a security or pentest audit, to update routine, create credentials log in the hard support for periodically, and scan malware on a regular basis.

Also, what you have to do is manage user permissions, turn it off debugging mode, use HTTPS, protect website from SQL injection as well as cleanup website incorrect code and files.

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