New Jersey Mayor and Son Arrested For Nuking Recall Website

phaedrus5001 writes "The mayor of West New York, New Jersey was arrested by the FBI after he and his son illegally took down a website that was calling for the recall of mayor Felix Roque (the site is currently down). From the article: 'According to the account of FBI Special Agent Ignace Ertilus, Felix and Joseph Roque took a keen interest in the recall site as early as February. In an attempt to learn the identity of the person behind the site, the younger Roque set up an e-mail account under a fictitious name and contacted an address listed on the website. He offered some "very good leads" if the person would agree to meet him. When the requests were repeatedly rebuffed, Joseph Rogue allegedly tried another route. He pointed his browser to Google and typed the search strings "hacking a Go Daddy Site," "recallroque log-in," and "html hacking tutorial."'"

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Should have used Duck Duck Go

[evilRhino]

Using Google for criminal enterprises is bad news bears.

Re:Should have used Duck Duck Go

[Grygus]

Yes.

Actually...

[betterunixthanunix]

Try searching for, "This document is confidential" on Google. You would be surprised by what sort of things turn up.

Re:Actually...

[Anonymous Coward]

0 ?

Re:Actually...

[geekoid]

That how I get the non public face email account to CEOs.
It's funny when you send an email to a CEO, then get a call from the VP to take care of the issue. Lat time I did it, the issue was solved in a day, and they had to change global websites.

That's all?

[meerling]

" three counts of intentionally accessing computers without authorization or intentionally causing damage to a protected computer"

You'd think the threats and other stuff would kick on a few other charges than those. ianal but I bet even I could find at least a half dozen additional things to nail them with.

I wonder if they'll let him keep his job. (Politics are bizarre.)

Re:Party afiliation not important

[Attila Dimedici]

You misunderstand. It is news when a corrupt politician is a Republican. When a corrupt politician is a Democrat that is no more news than when the sun comes up in the east. What makes this story news is that the FBI arrested him, not the fact that he is a corrupt Democratic politician, so there is no reason to mention his party affiliation.

Security?

[increment1]

Checked GoDaddy whois, and the domain was registered using their Domains by Proxy service to hide the registrant. This seems to imply that Domains By Proxy was hacked / socially engineered in order to compromise the account. Worse, it appears that this was accomplished by someone with little to no computer or hacking experience.

The article does not go into detail about how the hack was actually accomplished, other than mentioning it was via a reset email. I am curious what this actually means for the security of domain names registered on GoDaddy using Domains By Proxy. Are they truly that easy to hack?

I tend to register all of my domains using the proxy service simply to avoid spam in my inbox.

Attack who again?

[SuperKendall]

Republicans attack their own when they do something as unbelievable as suggesting that, hey, maybe gay marriage won't destroy the nation

Cheney supports gay marriage, I don't see anyone attacking him.

Currently the only backwards thinking people appear to be Democrats. Sure they say they are for gay marriage, but what have they DONE to support it?

You're way better off supporting conservatives who at least are likely to believe in true freedom of choice.