Wednesday, 19. August 2009
Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2009 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Bungling cybercops' r00t-y0u.org sting backfires - Hack me? Hack you!
Australian Federal police have been humbled after boasting of taking over an underground cybercrime forum - only for hackers to break into a federal police computer system, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Police computer security experts claimed responsibility for taking over the r00t-you.org cybercrime forum as part of a sting operation on ABC's Four Corners TV programme on Monday night entitled Fear in the Fast Lane. The Feds had reportedly configured their own systems as a honeypot designed to track and trace denizens logging into the forum. Police gained access to the forum not through infiltration but after raiding the Melbourne home of the forum's alleged administrator last Wednesday.
theregister.co.uk Hackers break into police computer as sting backfires old shit
