Link here http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/12/nigerian-government-website-defacement/

Nigerian government website falls at hands of Brazilian defacement
by Graham Cluley on September 12, 2011 | Comments (4)

Filed Under: Vulnerability

Here's what the official website of the government of Nigeria normally looks like:

Nigerian government website
[img]http://sophosnews.files./2011/09/nigeria-before.jpg?w=640[/img]
And here's what it looks like today, with a title of "Fatal Error ownz you !!!!!":

Defaced Nigerian government website
[img]http://sophosnews.files./2011/09/nigeria-after1.jpg?w=640[/img]
Fatal Error !
by Elemento_pcx & s4r4d0 ,
"Seja você mesmo mas não seja sempre o mesmo" , G. o Pensador ,

The message in Portuguese translates as

"Be yourself but not always the same" , G. The Thinker ,

Two email addresses are provided by the hackers if anyone needs any help (it's uncertain whether you would contact them for help regarding the website defacement, or to have the profundity of the quote explained to you).

Of course, it's perfectly possible that the email addresses listed belong to people who have no knowledge of the hack - but with the quote written in Portugeuse, it certainly wouldn't be a surprise to see a Brazilian connection.

If you run a website make sure you are doing everything to keep it as secure as possible - for both your organisation's sake, and that of your users. If you haven't already done so, read this informative paper by SophosLabs, "Securing websites", which covers some of the issues.

I just visited www.nigeria.gov.ng and it is down - your thoughts

Is the Nigerian Government slack in hiring competent technology consultants to build and maintain a symbolic presence like our national website?

Suspicious. . .

that site has been down since last week.

September 12, 2011. . .Old news!

Slyr0x:

September 12, 2011. . .Old news!

Site is still down bruv! a National website - scratch that. [b]The Nigeria Website h[/b]as been down since the hack and not even a blinker from the Government nor its citizens - worse not even a word from Leading IT Gurus Offline or Online

lagerwhenindoubt:

Site is still down bruv! a National website - scratch that. [b]The Nigeria Website h[/b]as been down since the hack and not even a blinker from the Government nor its citizens - worse not even a word from Leading IT Gurus Offline or Online

We talked about it here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-757594.0.html. . .Not like the site was serving any purpose sef. .

What I find interesting is that the site went down +2 days or so after the voluntarily designed site was announced to the world. Are they a part of NL or any of the other boards where the announcement was made?

Very interesting. . .

@
OP
its a lie.
FG's site was not defaced.
You guys are just desperately looking for FG's web design contract.
Nigeria.gov.ng
is beign redesigned, so what concerns you there?
You guys should be careful what you joke with.
And that hopeless brazilian site of yours.

lol

#TEAMBOKOHARAM  

moderattor:

@
OP
its a lie.
FG's site was not defaced.
You guys are just desperately looking for FG's web design contract.
Nigeria.gov.ng
is beign redesigned, so what concerns you there?
You guys should be careful what you joke with.
And that hopeless brazilian site of yours.

olodo, go and check for urself

dont worry peep

900BILLIONS will be spent next year on security, including e-security

No Wahala at all, If we start blowing grammar before two days thing go show face.

Make them leave the place of government make our youth that full loaded enter there for one year and see changing in all.

All contents on the website have been moved to GEJ facebook page. That is the new naija official website.

Maybe not hacked, probably designed by a copy and paste code guru

Goodluck doesn't need the website, his facebook page is enough, especially wit the new improved CONTACT ME button.

Dis Guy:

dont worry peep
900BILLIONS will be spent next year on security, including e-security

and op wants a share of it.  

The website can go to hell. it was a pile of crap anyways so, no difference if it's up or not.

The designer is also a lecturer so he is on strike and would be back if federal government meet there demands

wat do you expect? Is it not nigeria? We never do anything well!, Wat an embarrassment, I'm sure they dont even know the site is down or wat to do,

I think it also speaks a lot about the Nigerian Community of IT practitioners (home and abroad). unfortunately we work in silos (individuals and corporations) - while brilliant on our own - together we have not formed a visible presence like India, Europe, Asia and the US. It shows in the way majority of Nigerian firms prefer outsourced foreign providers - Our Technology Agencies and Institutions get a budget yearly and dollar funding from other nations and we still crawl to form a cohesive, united, world-class IT Community. I sometimes wonder whether Ministry of Technology has long-term sustainable plans for this sector - it is already going the way of the Kano Groundnut Pyramids

Is it me or does GEJ look like Baba Suwe in that picture?

The guy needs some swagger!!!!!

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Like the so called government non-functional - useless!

This is a minor issue that can be resolved if they are aware.
Not a big deal quite unfortunate

See what we're talki abt? They can't secure ordinary d fg website and they assurin us to nurse no fear, relax our mind.

Security ma foot!

Even now the site is still down.

This is not that big a deal, lets face it, The site was useless to begin with.
It was riddled with vulns, im even sure the skiddies that defaced it didn't even have to break a sweat.
It wasn't even been updated and i'm even sure the site admin no longer lives in Nigeria.