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Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day
An anonymous reader writes in with this story about a hacker that took over a BBC server during the Christmas holiday. "A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system. While it is not known if the hacker found any buyers, the BBC's security team responded to the issue on Saturday and believes it has secured the site, according to a person familiar with the cleanup effort. A BBC spokesman declined to discuss the incident. 'We do not comment on security issues,' he said."
But the Doctor fixed it!
The BBC has plenty of experience with Christmas invasions. I expect a police-box was involved in dealing with the problem.
People in the UK pay to see a made-for-TV Doctor Who movie in theaters.
People all over the world pay to see Movies in movie in theatres when they could torrent it and watch it on a crappy TV or a computer monitor.
It's about the quality of the experience, not penny pinching. This is especially the case if you are a big enough fan of Dr Who, Star War, Avatar, The Hobbit, Aliens, Predator.... etc. going to see the movie is actually worth it and watching it on TV, particularly the first time you watch it, is spoiling the experience. I watched the Dr Who movie in 3D and to me it was worth it even though I'm not a hardcore fan.
People in the UK pay to see a made-for-TV Doctor Who movie in theaters.
People all over the world pay to see Movies in movie in theatres when they could torrent it and watch it on a crappy TV or a computer monitor.
It's about the quality of the experience, not penny pinching. This is especially the case if you are a big enough fan of Dr Who, Star War, Avatar, The Hobbit, Aliens, Predator.... etc. going to see the movie is actually worth it and watching it on TV, particularly the first time you watch it, is spoiling the experience. I watched the Dr Who movie in 3D and to me it was worth it even though I'm not a hardcore fan.
If it wasn't ruined by 3D I could see the argument, especially when you're watching with a lot of similar minded folks.
I went to see the Hobbit last week (2D, I'd have preferred a 2D HFR but that didn't seem to be available). After paying the £18 for two tickets, we were subjected to uncomfortable seating with about as much leg room as a real theatre, and someone actually yelling at the screen! The first 15 minutes were adverts, then another 15 minutes of trailers. And of course the "you are a criminal" statements and 1984 "report your neighbours" adverts.
Now our normal venue (Trafford Centre) does have comfortable seating, and I've never had someone yelling "watch out for the dragon" and laughing and muttering to themselves in a cinema before, but it didn't help the "cinema experience"
So the question is, what remains. Why would I want to watch a film at the cinema when we could instead watch it at home on the sofa with a glass of wine? Even shared experience films, like comedies, are let down by the number of screenings -- it's been 13 years since I last sat in a packed cinema.
It's the impatience that makes me go to the cinema. It's cheaper to buy (not rent) it on blueray than to go out, and the experience is better.
So did Acid Burn kick Crash Override out of the system?
If he'd sold early access to the Doctor Who Christmas special to Americans, he would've made a fortune.
He broke into an outside ftp server, presumably in a DMZ, that's used for transferring files to and from outside companies.
I'd love to know the details of the breakin, was it an exploit in the previous FTP software?
Currently it's running
220 ProFTPD 1.3.3g Server (ftp.bbc.co.uk) [212.58.252.93]
But has several more ports open to random people on the intarweb (rsync, really?)
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
444/tcp open snpp
873/tcp open rsync