Hackers infiltrated one of the National University of Singapore's Web servers yesterday, leading to the re-setting of passwords for affected accounts.
The hackers, who call themselves Team Intra, made staff user names, domain information and hashed passwords - the taking of a variable-length password and creation of a cryptic, fixed-length one - public, reported SC Magazine of Australia yesterday.
According to a report Tuesday by local daily The Straits Times, Malaysian employees from business consultancy firm, The Black Wilder Group (TBWG), stumbled on what H3x4 Crew had done while monitoring the group for an "unrelated case". They saw screenshots of the hacked NParks sited posted on a temporary Web site, which was subsequently removed and uploaded again on kenahack.com, a site that reveals hacking exploits, the article stated.
TBWG said it contacted Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs after its discovery as it believed confidential data had been leaked.
New recruits to Singapore's military, air force and navy are to get a new standard-issue item of equipment besides their rifle -- the iPad.
The defence ministry said Monday it will be issuing "about 8,000" of the sleek, touch-screen tablet computers -- already wildly popular with the city-state's tech-savvy youth -- to recruits from November.
