Monday, December 25, 2000		Article

Pakistan’s Web site hacked
Tribune News Service

A war is on between software professionals of India and Pakistan. Though actual wars have been fought and skirmishes are a daily routine offline, this one is strictly online.

On December 13 Pakistani hackers intruded into zeetv.com, a namesake of India’s Zee Television. The site was hacked by Karachi American School (KAS). The site has nothing in common with the Zee television’s, www.zeetelevision.com, and was owned by a New York-based journalist of Indian origin.

"We have made the site Kashmir Today," the banner on the site proclaimed before it was yanked off the Net.

This week on Friday, December 22, an Indian software professional, who wants to be identified only through his Yahoo! address, true_Indian_hacker, hacked www.pakgov.org.  The home page of the site says, "I am in the process of hacking a Web site again."

All pages of the site, including Home, Terrorism and Kashmir have been defaced. Indo-Pak war cartoons, depicting Pakistan’s defeat, have been inserted on the Kashmir page.

The hacker claims to have resorted to the DNS method of hacking. "The site was meant for promotion of terrorism by KLC, supported by Pakistan Government, prior to hacking," the hacker says, and signs off with "Vande Mataram" and "I Love India."