Police Computers Archive

  • Police try to trick hackers, with hilarious results

    Police try to trick hackers, with hilarious results

    Here's a fun story. Police in Australia thought they were being mighty clever when they took over an “underground hacking forum.” (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.

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  • Darn them Dukenko boys! Ukrainian hackers steal $415,000 from podunk sherriff

    Darn them Dukenko boys! Ukrainian hackers steal $415,000 from podunk sherriff

    Cyber criminals AKA teenagers who are just more organized than the IT staffs of their victims stole $415,000 from a sheriff’s department in Bullitt County, Kentucky. That’s right: Bullitt County. Kentucky. The hacker found out that their phishing expedition had installed a keystroke logging Trojan with remote control capabilities onto the police computers and then lucked [...]

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