Ministries, agencies told to beef up cyber security


One of a messages posted upon a Information Department website was a purported notice of Najib's abdication as prime minister. File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, February 18 Chief Secretary to a Government Datuk Seri Dr Ali Hamsa has destined all dialect as well as ministries to lift a turn of confidence of their websites to forestall hacking.
The directive was a follow-up to a hacking of a Information Department's website.
"All ministries will take confidence measures, not only a Ministry of Information, Communications as well as Culture," he told reporters after a public briefing during a Defence Ministry, here, today.
He said, to date, a turn of confidence during all a ministries' websites was under control as well as they were asked to be alert of a hacking threat during all times.
The e-Akhbar as well as e-Press websites belonging to a dialect was suspected to have been hacked with a posting of two statements 'Memo upon a Request of a People of Malaysia' as well as 'Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Najib) Officially Resigns', which a dialect detected early today.
In this regard, he said, a supervision was perplexing to identify a people involved as well as they would be severely dealt with.
Meanwhile, Information, Communications as well as Culture Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Kamaruddin Siaraf pronounced a suspected hacking of a Information Department's websites had been reported to a Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission (MCMC) as well as police.
"The system was hacked, it is not probable for e-Press to emanate such a statement," he pronounced after handing over a National Arts, Culture as well as Heritage Academy glorious students award, here, yesterday.
The Information Department in a statement currently denied issuing any state! ment upo n a abdication of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as quoted as well as disseminated in several social media sites this morning.
Information director-general Datuk Ibrahim Abdul Rahman, in a statement, additionally pronounced which a Department had acted fast to mislay a false statements from a sites.
He believed a hacking was finished to create a meridian of uncertainty in a nation as well as to tarnish a picture of a department.
"We do not rule out a possibility of a third celebration involvement as well as in all a Internet Protocol (IP) address recording abroad users had been identified.
"We are still questioning a possibility a IP is only a red herring. Nobody will escape, even insiders," he pronounced after camp a inform during a Putrajaya military headquarters, today. Bernama
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