MI5 Website Breached By Hacker

Jack Spine writes "UK intelligence agency MI5 has admitted that its website security was breached by hacker group Team Elite. A member of the hacker forum posted details of the hack last week, which took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the site's Google embedded search. MI5 admitted the breach on Wednesday, but said that the flaw had not been exploited maliciously."

Comments

Is This Good, or Bad for Mike Corley?

[Fleetie]

No doubt we'll find out on uk.misc later.

simple test

[martin-boundary]

MI5 admitted the breach on Wednesday, but said that the flaw had not been exploited maliciously.

If a whole bunch of fake Iraq WMD reports start showing up on the net in the next few days, then we'll know if they were really exploited or not...

Re:Better headline

[magsol]

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BOOM! Hit by CSS.

Competence

[Wowsers]

I propose the MI5 website team should be known as the "Mostly Incompetent 5" team !?

Re:Competence

[Iyonesco]

It's hardly surprising since the pay at MI5 is abysmal. I requested an information pack during my last year of university but lost interest when I found MI5 was about the worst paying graduate recruiter and especially bad for central London. Given the pay I would imagine that anyone with competence would take a job in the private sector leaving them to scrape up the dregs.

Still, it was worth requesting the information pack for the entertainment alone because in every one of the pictures all the people were turned away from the camera. It looked thoroughly ridiculous and I couldn't help think that they would have been better not using pictures at all.

Re:Competence

[SGDarkKnight]

Yes yes, but your forgetting one important detail, the information pack you requested is the one they show to the public, they dont want everyone to know about the "real" pay options you get that dont have any type of paper trails, just un-sequenced stacked bills handed to you in a brown paper bag that reads "lunch - extra lettuce".

As for not looking at the camera, i guess thats just habit to them now... knowing when their picture is being taken and all :-)

Re:Coward me

[Anonymous Coward]

You should be hearing black helicopters any moment. Stay in the basement - it's safer.

Sent from my iPhone

Re:meh

[sys.stdout.write]

Man.. James Bond villains are getting a lot nerdier.

Simple explanation for the security breach

[rmav]

... apparently the hackers used jailbroken iPhones ;-)
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1440233/Apple-Says-iPhone-Jailbreaking-Could-Hurt-Cell-Towers
Roberto

Re:Better headline

[TaggartAleslayer]

I like how you were modded interesting instead of Funny. Some poor bastard out there is now furiously trying to hack the pentagon with tips from Zen Garden.

Oblig.

[svtdragon]

Man.. James Bond villains are getting a lot nerdier.

Somebody beat you to this conclusion.

Re:Oblig.

[sys.stdout.write]

Did you ever see that South Park episode where everything Butters suggests is rebutted with "Simpsons did it!"

I feel like Randall Munroe my Simpsons; the thorn in my back; the down-mod for offtopic.

In other news...

[tjstork]

A hacker's apartment in London was invaded by a gang of unknowns. Nothing was stolen, but his computer was smashed, his books urinated on, and the victim suffered a broken leg, torn elbow tendon, and a few cracked ribs after reportedly being waterboarded in his own kitchen.