{"id":648,"date":"2009-08-24T00:48:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-08-24T00:49:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T17:49:11","slug":"police-try-to-trick-hackers-with-hilarious-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/police-try-to-trick-hackers-with-hilarious-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Police try to trick hackers, with hilarious results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Here\u2019s a fun story. Police in Australia <\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/security\/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">thought they were being mighty clever<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> when they took over an \u201cunderground hacking forum.\u201d (The forum is r00t-y0u.org, though it seems to be down right now.) One of the hackers on the forum then retaliated by breaking into police computers using a simple SQL injection. Security fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The police computer that the hacker broke into was supposed to be a honeypot, something put there so police could \u201ctrick\u201d the hackers into exposing themselves. Unfortunately for the police, the PC ran Windows, and the hacker was able to rock a SQL injection. The police \u201cleft the MYSQL password blank.\u201d Smart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Of course, the police say that no \u201creal\u201d data was compromised in the hack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The lesson is, of course, not to mess with script kiddies and their message boards. Or, maybe, to at least set a password every once in a while.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a fun story. Police in Australia thought they were being mighty clever when they took over an \u201cunderground hacking forum.\u201d (The forum is r00t-y0u.org, though it seems to be down right now.) One of the hackers on the forum then retaliated by breaking into police computers using a simple SQL injection. Security fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,48,47],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-hacker","tag-police","tag-underground"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-as","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}