India Cracked had an email based interview with GForce Pakistan. Below is the answers that heataz the co-founder of GForce Pakistan provided on behalf of GForce Pakistan.
Q: When did you form the GForce Pakistan group ? How many members are there in the group?
GF P: There are currently eight members of GForce Pakistan. It was formed shortly after the Nuclear Explosions by India & Pakistan which resulted in instability in the Kashmir region and led to many false stories created by the Indians and being spread by their media. To raise public awareness about the truth in Kashmir, we got together and created GForce Pakistan.
Q: What does the word "GForce" mean ? Are you are from Pakistan ?
GF P: Actually, to be honest I have no clue what the word means. It's just a word. Like aircraft-related high alpha manouvers or something. Sounds cool. Yes, most of the members are from Pakistan.
Q: In real life, what are your professions ?
GF P: Most of us are students, some of us have pursued jobs in the IT industry.
Q: What is your favourite music group?
GF P: I personally prefer Slipknot and KoRn, but I don't think the other guys will agree with me :-)
Q: Where do you guys hang around online ?
GF P: Well, we're mostly on irc.ssc.net which is a nice, fast and secure network unlike undernet/efnet. The channel is, of course, secret :-)
Q: Why do you deface website ? Is it for the fun/excitement of it, or for political reasons or combination of both ?
GF P: We deface websites for a cause, which is for the good of our Muslim brothers. INNOCENT PEOPLE are being killed in Kashmir & Palestine by Indians and Israelis. No one is doing anything to stop them. We try and raise public awareness about them.
Q: You said that "To raise public awareness about the truth in Kashmir" you all created GForce Pakistan. At this point of time, do you think GForce has been successful? Is yes, how/why do you think so?
GF P: Yes, to a certain extent we have suceeded in raising awareness about the Kashmir issue. Though it has not influenced any political decisions yet. The cease-fire in kashmir right hopfully enough to prevent people from dying. But there is no such cease fire in Palestine, and people are still being killed there as I write this.
Q: Which OS do you think is more vulnerable to break in ? Why do you think this is so?
GF P: Windows NT is the most vulnerable operating system ever created by mankind. It's default install is probably one of the most vulnerable ones in history, and it is not open sourced, so we have to depend on the coders at Microsoft to audit their code for vulnerabilities (which they don't).
Q: Do you code your own exploits or do you use scripts/codes available on the web?
GF P: We code our own exploits for vulnerabilities already found by other people on the internet and discussed in public forums. We do not find vulnerabilities in software on our own.
Q: Do you help webmaster/admins fix their holes if they ask for your advice/help?
GF P: Well, not many admins have asked for our help, but those who have, have been helped by us in every way possible to give them advice on how to secure their systems.
Q: Are the break-ins groups work or individual effort?
GF P: Most of the time it is an individual effort, though group break-ins are usually used on extremely high profile sites that have good security.
Q: Do you just replace the index page when you deface or do you do further damage like get emails/delete files etc.?
GF P: We ONLY change the website of the servers we break into. We do not damage any other part of the system in any way.
Q: Which breakin of yours, if any, did you find the most challenging?
GF P: Well, we really liked the www.setindia.com defacemement as it was a very high profile Indian site (it was the site of their leading TV Network). They were initially running Windows NT which was WAY to easy to break into, but later on they switched to Linux and it pretty challenging to break into it again...but eventually we did.
Q: Has there been a brush with the law enforcement agencies so far?
GF P: Nope ;-)
Q: Which are the sites that you visit to keep yourself updated on security issues ?
GF P:Some of the good sites are:
www.securityfocus.com
www.securityfocus.com/bugtraq/archive
www.technotronic.com
www.slashdot.org
www.freshmeat.net
www.linuxsecurity.com
www.whitehats.com
www.cert.org
packetstorm.securify.com
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