{"id":6008,"date":"2009-08-21T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/hackers-break-into-police-computer-australian-federal-police\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T21:05:33","slug":"hackers-break-into-police-computer-australian-federal-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/hackers-break-into-police-computer-australian-federal-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/deletephotos1-420x0.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"179\" alt=\"deletephotos1-420x0.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/security\/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html\">\n<p>Exclusive: An Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC&#8217;s Four Corners program, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police computer system.<\/p>\n<p>Security consultants say police appear to have been using the computer as a honeypot to collect information on members of the forum but the scheme came undone after the officers forgot to set a password.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Many details of the investigation were revealed for the first time on Four Corners last night.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/security\/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html\" ><cite>Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/deletephotos1-420x0.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"179\" alt=\"deletephotos1-420x0.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/>   Exclusive: An Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC&#8217;s Four Corners program, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police computer system.  &#8230;  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.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1yU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}