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Li Ching. .30th June 1988. .21st. .SIM-RMIT-BDEFT.

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Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:55 pm

SIM portal hacked

heard from Nisa tt SIM portal was being hacked on CNY and many student's com was infected with virus..

luckily i was away on CNY..

phew..

here's the coverage from Today newspaper:

UniSIM raises guard after website hacked during CNY holidays

STUDENTS from the SIM University (Uni-SIM) were shocked earlier this week to find their computers infected with a virus after logging on to the school’s website.

“I logged in to get my notes over the Chinese New Year holidays and found the website had been hacked,” said an engineering undergraduate who declined to be named. He then found himself directed to a website of unknown origin. Later, the 25-year-old discovered his computer had been infected with a virus.

“This is very inconvenient because our programmes are designed so we can work from home,” said the student who called the MediaCorp hotline.

Another student, too, said she experienced problems when trying to log in on Monday.

“I contacted the school to inform them of this problem (on Thursday) but it was still not fixed on Friday morning,” said the 24-year-old. “Without access to the website, we can’t work at all.”

When contacted on Friday evening, UniSIM’s director of IT Services Gary Teo confirmed that the website was hacked on Jan 26. As a result, malicious viruses hosted from websites in China hooked on to the UniSIM portal and began spreading to unsuspecting users.

Said Mr Teo: “We have removed all the scripts and we have also put in place protection to prevent further attacks.”

Now that the situation is under control, Mr Teo said the school has begun advising those infected with the virus to use the necessary clean-up programmes.

“At the same time, those using the browsers should also clear their caches ... Then they can proceed to access our website again.”

In the meantime, the Google advisory — which appeared on the site when it was hacked — still remains, but Mr Teo said that they have asked Google to review the site and remove the advisory.