Tyneside police website defaced, used to serve phish
Northumbria Police Authority woke up to a host of security problems after the August bank holiday weekend. Not only was the UK police regulation authority defaced by a foul-mouthed Tunisian hacker, who made reference to the Anonymous hacking collective, but the law-enforcement authority was placed in the more serious position of …
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Hey Sarge...
We seem to have won the Nigerian/Tunisian Sweepstakes!
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And this story turned up in my newsfeed with an ad for Windows Server attached. Excellent targeted advertising!
Hmmm
It seems our "Security Services" are anything but...
Not a police website?
Either northumbriapoliceauthority.org.uk is not an official police website, or someone has been a little "dishonest" in their registrant details:
Registrant type:
UK Individual
Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.
hmm
Should be a sub domain on police.gov.uk surely?
Edit: I'm wrong its http://www.northumbria.police.uk/
Low-level crooks
seem to have a higher level permissions than the spokeperson for NPA.
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