wah Heng ah - GOOGLE not scared of PAP whoa

[PrinceCharming]

Waiting for boy boy to sue-daddy says if you don't sue means they are right.

It's reported in this thread http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread....rt-to-bring-cyber-attackers-to-justice-PM-Lee that Pinky threatens to punish hackers severely.

Therefore Pinky has to sue Google in a court of law to prove that he's right and Google's wrong.

I say want to take legal action do it in America lah-send your precious Ah Neh and Pinoy talents as experts witness and show how good are these spurs on silliporean hides.

Totally agree.

 

[Satyr]

http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/11/15/google-refutes-idas-accusation/

Google refutes IDA’s accusation

Last week, PMO and Istana websites were “compromised”.

In the early hours of Friday (8 Nov), IDA issued a statement saying that a subpage for search on the PMO website was reported to be compromised:

A vulnerability in that subpage was exploited to display pages from other sources. This vulnerability is known as cross-site scripting. The PMO main website is still working, and we are working to restore the page that has been compromised. The matter is under investigation.

However, PMO main site remained working.

At a media briefing in Friday afternoon, IDA then blamed a vulnerability in the Google search bar used by PMO and Istana websites, which allowed the sites to be compromised [Link]:

“THE websites of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Istana were not hacked but were compromised, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) said yesterday.

A vulnerability in the Google Search bar embedded on the websites’ subpage had been exploited by unknown parties in two attacks, the IDA said.”

What happened is that online visitors searching within PMO and Istana websites were redirected to view content and messages on another webpage resembling the two sites. The visitors thought that the websites had been defaced when in fact, they continued to work properly.

On Wed (13 Nov), a Google spokesperson refuted IDA’s charges:

“It has come to our attention that the PMO’s website recently experienced an attack in the search functionality of the site run by Google’s Custom Search Engine site-search widget.”

“After investigation, it appears that the code in the Google custom search engine is safe and the vulnerability lies with the coding on the webpage.”

In other words, IDA may have wrongly accused Google. Google said the vulnerability lies with how the webpages of PMO and Istana websites were coded.

Typically, when a visitor enters an input into the Google custom search engine which, in this case, was used by PMO and Istana websites, the web programmer should check and make sure that the search data is validated before proceeding to pass the data to the search engine. Apparently, this was not done for PMO and Istana websites.

In this regard, the lack of input validation allowed the vulnerability to be exploited. It has nothing to do with the Google custom search engine.

It’s not known who is doing the coding for the government websites. The job could be outsourced to programmers outside of the government.

IDA said the vulnerability has since been patched.

This interesting. Assuming Google is right, the government technical expert either did not how how this happened or misrepresented the facts or has serious communication problems. Either way, how can we trust what they tell us. No wonder there is so much cynicism about government messages.

 

[STUCK_HERE]

See who bigger? Google lah.

 

[Cufflinks]

Wow, if they were to really take on Google and there is a dispute, more than half the foreign IT "specialists" would have to find a new line of "expertise".
They wouldn't be able to "google" to find out the solutions to problems no more.

 

[halsey02]

Will the PAP eat humble pie or continue to bash Google?

Eat humble Pie...they will have to resurrect N.A.I.R., DEVAN...he can tell them how to eat Humble Pie!..while they eating HUMBLE PIE..enjoy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42N366zDev0&list=PL6CC9FD00F9995BC3 "smokin'...

 

[longbow]

To Google, Singapore is small market. In fact Singapore needs Google more than they need us. China with its 1.4B pop is another matter.

 

[garlic]

The writer of this article has no brains. Started off by saying it was google's search page with the vulnerability and then at the very last sentence said the vulnerability has been patched. LMAO, obviously it was their own page and not google's unless google anyhow let ppl suka suka patch their codes. This writer's first priority is to shift blame and hold balls rather than tell the truth.. on the other hand, i expect nothing less from kinds like them.

http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/11/15/google-refutes-idas-accusation/

Google refutes IDA’s accusation



IDA said the vulnerability has since been patched.

 

[Seee3]

The writer of this article has no brains. Started off by saying it was google's search page with the vulnerability and then at the very last sentence said the vulnerability has been patched. LMAO, obviously it was their own page and not google's unless google anyhow let ppl suka suka patch their codes. This writer's first priority is to shift blame and hold balls rather than tell the truth.. on the other hand, i expect nothing less from kinds like them.

The guy who clear the press release should be in deep trouble now. If google is right, then he is either ignorant or trying to hoodwink.

 

[zhihau]

The guy who clear the press release should be in deep trouble...

how about being ignorant and trying to pull a fast one at the same time?

 

[chootchiew]

not known who is doing the coding for the government websites. The job could be outsourced to programmers outside of the government.

IDA said the vulnerability has since been patched.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH ! OBIGOOD ! continue outsource la. Next time if any of you have impotency or no sperm count, outsource your wife to let people fuck her for a baby ok bo ?