TURKISH HACKERS ATTACKED ON ICELAND AND INDIA (10th June 2019)

INCIDENT DESCRIPTION:

This cyber security breach news is exciting and interesting for obviously all of us but specially for the football lovers too. The incident is related to the two teams Turkey and Iceland. On 8^th of June, Turkey defeated world cup champion France from 2-0 and took a flight of 6.5 hours long overnight for Iceland for another qualifying match of UEFA Euro 2020. It all started from Keflavík International Airport, when team arrived there. Actually, two incidents happened that apparently disturbed the Turkish players badly. 

First one was sort of racist jeering at Turkish players when a man approached players and used a dish-scouring brush as a microphone and tried mimicking the players jokingly. 

Second was a matter of total disrespect for the whole team, who claimed that they were kept waiting for 3 hours for searching their luggage at passport control by the police. Turkish diplomatic sources claimed the official request for fast track security check was already made on 16^th May, they also reminded Iceland authorities again on 6^th June after some alternation in request for fast track security check. While ministry from Iceland claimed that the request was received just few hours before team’s arrival at airport. This incident was strongly condemned by Turkey’s president Tayyib Erdogan and foreign minister of Turkey. A diplomatic note, from Embassy of Turkey in Oslo, also sent to government of Iceland to record protest against disrespect shown to team. Meantime, Turkish people in social media burst and demanded for finding root cause and the culprit behind mimicking at airport.

Hackers Response and Analysis:

In response to this disrespect of team, the Turkish hacker group ‘Anka Neferler Tim’ attacked below on Iceland’s websites:

1)      Isavia websites (operates Keflavík International Airport)

2)      Icelandic football association ksi.is

3)      News website sunnlenska.is

4)      South Iceland general interest

Hackers shut down several Icelandic websites using DDoS attack. The attackers simply crashed sites by sending overwhelming traffic from different networks and choked the network bandwidth. This attack targets the availability of resources for legitimate users as they cannot access after the attack. The Isavia website later posted note and explained about DDoS attack caused website unavailable and their engineers recovered it. Extra Bandwidth must be available to avoid such incidents.

Another Turkish group ‘Ayyildiz Tim’ hacked verified twitter account of Indian actor who has over 37.4 million followers. This group then defaced the profile picture of celebrity with PM of Pakistan Mr. Imran Khan’s picture and posted several tweets but in one tweet they condemned irrespective behavior of Iceland with Turkish footballers.

Password of actor would be leaked ago and people use often same password for multiple accounts. Password must be different for accounts and also enable 2 factors authentication. Later, account recovered shortly and their cyber unit announced that they are investigating this incident.

Conclusion:

This was a game and it could be any other incident.
But the response can be in result of cyber attack.

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Some Facts of Pakistan Nuclear Weapon

A.Q khan being patriotic person, he was influenced by 1971 for loss of East Pakistan. After India launched nuclear weapon in 1974, he wrote to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to develop own weapon based on Uranium. On December 15, 1975, he left the Netherlands for Pakistan, accompanied by his wife and two daughters. He carried drawings of gas centrifuges (used for uranium separation), his blueprint copies and parts suppliers list.
First he started work with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) but due to several disagreement and complexion, A.Q. Khan founded the Engineering Research Laboratories (ERL) near Kahuta on 31 July 1976. Pakistan acquired blueprints of nuclear weapon from China in 1980 and nuclear parts from European countries suppliers.
At ERL, G.D. Alam solved the major centrifugal problems for uranium separation. A.Q Khan joined the team of theoretical physicists headed by theorist Dr. GD Allam. Their joint cooperation leaded them to successfully separation of 235U and 238U isotopes. Pakistan carried out first successfully cold test of nuclear weapon in 1983. But the real test was required to claim. Before 28th May explosion, there was also a problem that PM Nawaz Sharif did not allow scientists and engineers name include in nuclear test preparation but later after A.Q khan protest to Joint chief, he included their name and made sure presence of A.Q Khan and other engineers.
Finally, on 28 May 1998, Pakistan successfully detonated first nuclear device under codename Chagai-I. I bet, many of us would not know about Chagai-II, which was detonated two days later on 30 May 1998 under the leadership of Samar Mubarakmand (PAEC) but this weapon was based on Plutonium.
In 2004, A.Q Khan was arrested for supplying nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. He accepted and then General Musharraf pardoned him. Therefore till 2009, he was under house arrest.
I personally believe this was his passion and patriotism to Pakistan that he leaved Natherland from his lavish life and came back, insisted Zulfikar Ali Bhutoo and made us proud by tested Pakistan nuclear weapon.

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