It’s time to speak up
Just Been Hacked?
21 April 2009
A number of New Zealand domains were defaced today following an attack, thought to be by Turkish hackers, against Domainz , a local domain hosting company. NZ pages from Coca Cola, HSBC, Sony, Xerox, F-secure and Microsoft were all defaced according to Zone-H, the archive for Internet defacements.
So what do you do if your company has just been hacked? We recommend that:
- You take enough time to work out what is really happening before making major decisions such as isolating networks.
- Involve stakeholders in key decisions but act swiftly.
- Identify and secure information that will help identify who the attackers are and what they did.
- Call in external experts for incident response, computer forensics, and post incident analysis.
