Cyber Attack On Pakistani Websites

Cyber Attack On Pakistani Websites

Cyber Attack On Pakistani Websites.

ISLAMABAD (Daily Pakistan Online): A cyber attack on the official website of the government of Pakistan failed due to cyber security system.

Federal Minister for Information Technology Syed Aminul Haq has said that the cyber attack was carried out at 11:30 am.

The attack failed due to a comprehensive security system. He said that due to the cyber attack, the websites of some departments were automatically suspended but all the websites were activated in the shortest time of three hours.

He said the cyber attack was not on the data center, but on the networking side. Attempts were made to block Internet traffic through DDoS Attack, but no data was stolen in DDoS Attack.

Attacks on government and private websites were prevented by firewalls.