PRC website hacked again

The website of the Professional Regulation Commission was hacked Friday night, the second such attack this year against the government-owned site.

An official of Defcon Philippines sent a screenshot of the hacked site, which was listed as "suspicious" by search engine Google as of posting.

Google said part of the site was listed for suspicious activity twice over the past 90 days.

"Of the 107 pages that we tested on the site over the past 90 days, six pages resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time that Google visited this site was on 2009-08-20, and the last time that suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-08-06," the Google advisory said.

It noted that the site was distributing malicious software including trojans and scripting exploits. It said that while the site is not hosting the malicious software, third parties might have added malicious code to the site.

A blog site earlier said the PRC had been defaced and hacked last April 1, 2009. The site was restored in less than 12 hours.