Well, this
news report says so:
"The system administrators of the organisations or companies should pay attention to the latest in information technology," said Anonymous, 24, a hacker from Shah Alam.
"It is easy to hack a website and to find weaknesses in the system. Even a primary school kid can do it.
"If a hacker is malicious, he can do a lot of damage to a system or to individuals. Hackers can re-create a bogus website that looks exactly like the real one and no one can tell the difference.
"This is not such good news if you are a banking website, for example."
It does not even take a computer genius to hack, according to hackers. You can find hacking software on the Internet, and downloading the programmes and using them maliciously is just a click away.
"A hacker can download a port scanner, which looks for an open door in a system.
"Usually, any system which can be accessed by the public has some extra ports open so that the public can have access to it.
"All a hacker has to do is to find the open port and enter whatever commands that they can create themselves, and they are in the system."
Most hackers said they do it just for the fun of it, but there is always the few who do it for malicious reasons or profit.
ph334r the Anonymous hacker from Shah Alam, and yes, with a news report like the above, the education ministry should think twice about the security of
this system before launching it. Else, they have to be prepared for the rise of school-kid hackers attempting to change their grades... ph334r
At the click of a mouse, parents will be able to find out if their child had actually attended a co-curricular activity on a certain day or had really scored an Ã
