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Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password
Concerned Citizen writes "The Australian Federal Police database has been hacked, although 'hacked' might be too strong a word for what happens when someone gains access to a MySQL database with no root password. Can you be charged with breaking and entering a house that has the door left wide open? Maybe digital trespassing is a better term for this situation. 'These dipshits are using an automatic digital forensics and incident response tool,' the hacker wrote. 'All of this [hacking] had been done within 30-40 minutes. Could of [sic] been faster if I didn't stop to laugh so much.'"
I have to wonder just how clever these small-time fraudsters and crooks actually are.
Most of them are young men with little life experience, big egos and something to prove. Thus the puerile bragging and bravado coming out of the little scumbags in the media. If they're not script kiddies, they're not that much better; they're just greedy, arrogant, loud-mouthed little thieves, and the police will nail them as low-hanging fruit.
The Feds on the other hand, are people you DON'T want to needlessly antagonise. It'll be interesting to see if our little piece-of-shit fraudster friends are actually as smart as they think they are.