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DepEd website hacked?

Today (June 9, 2012), when I tried to visit the Department of Education (DepEd) website, a warning page appeared and stated that the website has a malware. It also warned that visiting the DepEd website can harm the computer. What I thought immediately was that the DepEd website might be compromised or hacked.

This is the warning page from Google Chrome browser:

The same thing happened when I used Firefox browser this webpage appeared:

If you search in Google using the keywords, "deped website inaccessible", you could find astonishing results:

Here are my thoughts why the browsers warn a user to visit the DepEd website:

That the DepEd website might be hacked or compromised.
The codes might be out of place such as a tag is placed below a closing tag.
Someone was probably injecting a malicious code that contains data from a certain site.
Or the site has been infected with a virus through the files uploaded in the server.

The Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic stated that of the 11 pages of DepEd's website they tested on the site over the past 90 days , 5 pages resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google (Google bot) visited this site was on June 8, 2012, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on June 7, 2012

What do you think? Has the DepEd website been hacked?

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"DepEd website hacked?" was written by Mary under the Internet category. It has been read 5425 times and generated 10 comments. The article was created on 09 June 2012 and updated on 09 June 2012.

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Qzqtum [Entry]

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Markie Tab's [Entry]

No,, it's still accessible,,, It's the google site having a problem.

Guest [Entry]

Markie Tab's, are you having trouble accessing DEPED website? Right now, I cannot access the website.

Maybe bandwidth capacity is limited.

Gilbert M. Forbes [Entry]

As of the moment, deped web site is still inaccessible. Error is being constantly reported. DepEd should be informed of this problem.

Robinx Mendoza [Entry]

Check the site again its working now.

mhelian [Entry]

i also experience having problems in browsing deped website...pls help...we need to open the website

Faust [Entry]

Have it cleaned at sucuri.net or better yet have a full restore if there's backup, update IIS 5 to latest version updates ASP Pages.

Guest [Entry]

Faust, I have been scanning it with sucuri.net but no security threats have been detected. The status is verified clean. Not blacklisted in web trust.

What's wrong with the depEd website?

Harold Christian D. Doma [Entry]

currently there are 5 out of 21 pages that are infected by a virus or compromised by a hacker.

What is the current listing status for www.deped.gov.ph?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 21 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-06-13, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-06-07.
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS24079 (DATAONE).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, www.deped.gov.ph did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Marylove L. Rapirap [Entry]

I'd say i also experience those things when I tried to browse the DEPED website. I think it started at the start of June2012.