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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."
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...
BOOM! Hit by CSS.
"I'd just like to emphasise that taking a million years isn't a metaphor here..." -Rich Bradshaw
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.
Man.. James Bond villains are getting a lot nerdier.
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.
Man.. James Bond villains are getting a lot nerdier.
Somebody beat you to this conclusion.