BE READY AGAINST HACKERS ATTACKING PM'S WEBSITE, SAYS MINISTER

SINGAPORE (Bernama) - Minister of Information, Communication and
Culture Dr Rais Yatim Tuesday asked all involved in cyber security to
be prepared to defend the website of the Prime Minister from being hacked.

He said the Communication and Multimedia Commission and Cybersecurity,
among others, must not treat lightly the possibility of the website of Najib Tun
Razak being attacked.

"We are not afraid of the threat because we are prepared," he told reporters
after opening the Malaysian pavilion at the CommunicAsia Convention 2011 here.

With the "layers and shields" created by government technical experts, it
was not easy to hack government portals although some had been affected, Rais
said.

The hackers attacking government websites had a specific agenda and were not
doing it for fun, he said.


The hackers who had affected about 200 websites in Malaysia had malicious
intentions, but the government was not afraid of facing them, Rais said.

In KUALA LUMPUR, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Dr Koh
Tsu Koon told the House of Representatives that the special task force set up by
the National Security Council had successfully handled the threat from hackers.

He said the task force was able to restore hacked websites within three
hours on average.