The Taiwan National Computer Emergency Response Team has asked Facebook to delete hackers’ accounts and requested its counterpart in the Philippines to help deal with the hackers.
The Taiwanes Presidential Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense and Coast Guard Administration were subject to DDOS attacks over the weekend.
The Cabinet Office of Information and Communication Security said May 12 that it is taking measures to deal with anonymous Philippines-based cyberattacks on government and private sector websites.
Based on the timing of the events, these attacks may be related to the May 9 fatal attack on an ROC fishing boat by the Philippines coast guard and retaliation against their government’s websites by Taiwan netizens,” ROC Cabinet spokeswoman Cheng Li-wun said.
As of May 12, “central and local government web pages have been defaced or subject to distributed denial of service attacks, with the latter activity most common,” Cheng added.
The OICS has announced a series of measures to deal with the attacks. Details of Internet Protocol addresses of attackers are being passed to all government departments, who have been asked to exercise heightened vigilance.
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