DHQ restores website after Hacker's attack.

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters on Friday
regained control of its website hours after
unidentified hackers took control of the
platform, http://defenceinfo.mil.ng and
defaced it.
Tweets were posted on a twitter handle,
@imamsadiq123, claiming responsibility for
the cyber attack. The DHQ provided no
information on the identity of the hackers.
Saturday PUNCH noticed that tweets on the
Twitter handle bearing the logo ‘Our Prophet
Our Honour’ date back to December 25,
2014.
The tweets labelled President Goodluck
Jonathan ‘an infidel’ while also justifying an
attack on presidential guards during a PDP
campaign in Bauchi State on Thursday.
The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-
Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in a tweet hours
after the attack that the infiltration had been
blocked.
He initially said in a tweet, “Yes. Our website
has been defaced. There’s an ISIS style
attempt to hack into Government Platforms.
Our provider, @Galaxybackbone is on it.”
Olukolade later said the hackers defaced the
front end of the website but could not
penetrate the database of the site. He said
preliminary investigation revealed that the
attack was launched from the end of the site
host.
Olukolade said @imamsadiq123 had been put
off for the site activities.
“Normal activities on the channel have
resumed. Apparently, the blogsite was
targeted because of its role as a major
channel for disseminating information on
military and security activities in the nation’s
counter-terrorism campaign,” he said.

Punch.