Local security company GTSP found itself on the wrong end of a hacker attack this week as its Web site was hacked by a Turkish hacker, called iSKORPiTX.
Jacques van Heerden, owner of GTSP, says - while his site was compromised - none of his client data was located on the site server.
"We used Joomla!, which was not properly secure," he says. "It has vulnerabilities, and one was exploited."
iSKORPiTX has carried out more than 200 000 hacker attacks in the last month, of which just over 180 000 were mass defacements. Today, by mid-morning, he had already done 30 hacks.
Van Heerden says the hack on his site was not an advanced one, and the company had been monitoring iSKORPiTX for some time already.
"We left the index-page up for three days once he defaced it to see what he would do. We set up the honey-pot to monitor his behaviour - this is what we do," explains Van Heerden.
The company is re-designing its index-page on a new platform and, in the meantime, the site has been taken down.
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