(LOL) Hackers break into police computer as sting backfires

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Last Wednesday, federal police officers in co-operation with Victoria Police executed a search warrant on premises in Brighton, Melbourne, connected to the administrator of an underground hacking forum, r00t-y0u.org, which had about 5000 members...

However, what the federal police did not know was that hackers had already cottoned on to their plan... (a) hacker wrote "I couldn't stop laughing" on seeing that the federal police's server was running Windows, which is known among hacker communities for being insecure. Police had also "left the MYSQL password blank".

"These dipshits are using an automatic digital forensics and incident response tool," the hacker wrote. "All of this had been done within 30-40 minutes. Could of been faster if I didn't stop to laugh so much." ...

(Shaon Diwakar, a security consultant at Hack Labs in Sydney) said the hacker would have had access to anything that was stored on the computer.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html

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The Australian Federal police went to TV Monday night to boast about their breakthrough success in breaking up a hacking group. The next morning screen shots, links, emails and file directories of Police Servers used in the "bust" were posted on the target site itself, and across the internet.

PS. The Australian Federal Police has access to US Classified Criminal and National Security Intelligence, and is responsible for monitoring Terrorism.

All over the world, we're being kept safe by these clowns.

And people keep having to take their shoes off before they can board a plane..........................................

The act that they're using Windows, of all things, for this type of work boggles the mind. They're going after hackers... using that?

I believe that's called "mistake number one". "Mistake number two" is failing to set the MySQL password- and that's a gigantic mistake, especially when going after hackers. I wonder if the guy slipped in a rootkit before he left their machine...

I think these stupid gits deserve the egg on their faces right now. It makes me wonder how many critical systems government in general have Windows somehow involved.

All one needs to do it look up ACI.

without putting at least 2 firewalls between it and the net.
Mistake 1.1 was using windows.
winblows can be made secure if you put time into it.
of course 'nix is better, but c'mon.. these are the cops!

I'm surprised they didn't use Access instead of MySQL.

That is hilarious.

:evilgrin:

In possibly the only remotely-realistic hacking scene in the history of Hollywood.

:rofl:

I can't stop giggling myself.

And as many of you have seen me say before, Weird.