NDP website has security flaw- Fucked up PAP can't get a simple thing right!

[Papsmearer]

SINGAPORE - The Internet is abuzz with criticism of the National Day Parade (NDP) website over an apparent security flaw that allows hackers to steal data entered on the site.

Blogger Zit Seng first highlighted the problem in a post on Monday. The post has since gone viral with netizens criticising the apparent lack of security.

According to the post, an NDP sub-site that takes in citizens' e-balloting submission for NDP tickets does not use SSL encryption technology to secure its web communication. The sub-site, launched on Saturday, asks for people's full name, NRIC number, telephone number and citizenship information.

"It's almost a national embarrassment that a country with such advanced and developed infocommunications capabilities could not find someone better to showcase its most important national event on the Internet," the blogger wrote.
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[AhMeng]

What is new? These milionaires ministers arent ashamed about it ...hahaha....

 

[frenchbriefs]

they need to implement the law that any act of breaking into or compromising data on a government website is an act of terrorism or vandalism.....then all they need to do is track down the culprits and sentence them jialat jialat for fucking the PAP!!!!!

punish them to the fullest extend of the law!!!!!!

 

[borom]

Did they use Indian FT's and Pinoy programmers or software engineer. Better check whether their papers are fake.

Another example of what I meant by 1st world price at 3rd world quality.

If it happens to WP,Vivian will be singing about integrity and who knows what

 

[ILovePAP]

It's an honest mistake. Lets move on.

 

[virus]

it is seemingly a honest mistake made by seriously stupid people from MIW.

according to boss sam.

 

[red amoeba]

Y bother to ballot for NDP tickets ? They pay me also I dun wanna go

 

[Confuseous]

Actually, by now, such incompetence is not unexpected.
The guys running the joints farm out to the cheapest quote, without knowing what the vendor is offering.
They zoom in on the price and viola, they have a contractor.

 

[laksaboy]

Security brought to you by the Powerpuff Girls.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

If you go to mindef website u will laugh. At one point it can only support Internet Explorer browser.

 

[frenchbriefs]

If you go to mindef website u will laugh. At one point it can only support Internet Explorer browser.

is there something different about the different browsers?how come can only support one browser but not others?do they use different codes for their webpages?

 

[shittypore]

they need to implement the law that any act of breaking into or compromising data on a government website is an act of terrorism or vandalism.....then all they need to do is track down the culprits and sentence them jialat jialat for fucking the PAP!!!!!

punish them to the fullest extend of the law!!!!!!

You parade naked in Little India you expect what?

 

[laksaboy]

Hmmm.... think again if you are thinking of outsourcing your IT project to Iconz-Webvisions Pte Ltd.

http://hostcabi.net/domain/ndp.org.sg

Ndp.org.sg is currently hosted at Iconz-webvisions Pte. Ltd.. This domain is connected to IP address 123.100.252.107 which is hosted on a server that appears to be located in Singapore, Singapore.

http://iconz-webvisions.com/en/product/main/products

ICONZ-Webvisions is a cloud and managed hosting provider serving Asia, Australasia and the global market. We are committed to delivering secure and reliable solutions and a superior customer experience, making us the trusted partner of mid-tier enterprises.

 

[laksaboy]

is there something different about the different browsers?how come can only support one browser but not others?do they use different codes for their webpages?

Different rendering engines, different ways of displaying Javascript etc.

You can do browser tests here:

http://acid3.acidtests.org

http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com

 

[blackmondy]

Whoever is stupid enough to go watch NDP deserves to have their data hacked.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

The ironic thing about ndp is that more foreigners are excited about watching it rather than locals.

 

[Confuseous]

The ironic thing about ndp is that more foreigners are excited about watching it rather than locals.

One gets that impression because the foreigners are outnumbering the locals.

 

[blackmondy]

The ironic thing about ndp is that more foreigners are excited about watching it rather than locals.

Maybe that's the whole purpose of NDP...