Fifth government website defaced, Malacanang tells Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM to muscle up

With the attack on the TESDA website, Malacanang through deputy Presidential Spokesman Gary Olivar has asked Comelec and Smartmatic to step up online security measures for the May 2010 poll automation.

In an interview quoted by Gmanews.tv when asked for a reaction to the defacement of the TESDA website:

“Of course we are concerned. This is not just a problem in our country, this is not just something that has happened just recently, it’s happening all over the country so this is certainly something that we are sensitive to as a matter of information policy within government,” said deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar at a press conference last week.”

However, this seems to be an over reaction considering that Smartmatic-TIM’s automated polling system is protected by multiple layers of security from the point of data entry to data transmission.  The protocols for casting votes as well as the transmission of 128 bit encoded data from 82,000 precincts virtually make it impossible to tamper with the transmission of election results.

Several websites will be put up to display election results in 2010, so if one goes down the others will come online.

Before Tesda’s, hackers had also victimized the Web sites of the Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

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