{"id":84530,"date":"2015-01-21T17:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=84530"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:45:47","slug":"weve-regained-control-hacked-websites-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/weve-regained-control-hacked-websites-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve regained control of hacked websites \u2013 Gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says its IT experts have regained control of all the government websites which were been hacked on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Deputy Communications Minister, Ato Sarpong on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> said they are 90 percent through to restoring the various websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that yes, we have regained control of our sites. We had to pull the web server down ourselves and as a result of that, all sites that are linked to the web server will be down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG-20150121-WA00001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84263\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG-20150121-WA00001.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20150121-WA0000\" width=\"640\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early on Wednesday, about <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/21\/govt-of-ghana-website-hacked\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>10 government agency websites<\/strong><\/span><\/a> including the official government of Ghana website were attacked.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;R75eJlu8JRtnmGjxVSv9TtyuRlbAtAQw&#8221;]The affected websites belong to the Ministries of Communication, Local Government, Trade, Foreign Affairs, Tourism and Water Resources Works and Housing.<\/p>\n<p>The others are; the Ghana Navy, the Scholarship Secretariat, Restored Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA).<\/p>\n<p>However, the Deputy Minister indicated that although the IT experts are 90 percent through, and &#8220;the sites could be brought back&#8221;, he has tasked the them to ensure that &#8220;a lot more checks are carried out to ensure that the necessary protocols required to safeguard the site and avoid any breaches are in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He stressed saying, &#8220;I can confirm that we are in control of our sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sarpong mentioned that close to 50 sites were hacked on Wednesday including the government of Ghana website.<\/p>\n<p>He however indicated that he is unable to \u201creally give the motivation for this but it happened and we need to put in place the necessary measures to ensure that it doesn\u2019t happen again going into the future and that is what we have been working on.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister added that the government will call a meeting of professionals and experts in the industry to help strengthen government systems because \u201cthis is a warning to us \u2013 not only to government but to all of us<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says its IT experts have regained control of all the government websites which were been hacked on Wednesday. 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