Our government, through the National Security Council, has classified hostile computer attacks on UK cyberspace as a level 1 threat to this country. In other words, a higher threat than a nuclear attack by an unfriendly power. is there ever a nuclear attack by a friendly power? Probably not.
£500M has been pledged to bolster cyber security, with a focus on key infrastructure and defence assets.
That was last month.
Now, a Rumanian hacker appears to have used some of Guy Fawkes Day to enter the UK Royal Navy's website. Whist he was inside it he managed to recover user names, passwords and those of the site administrator too. He proved this by posting them on the Internet.
A Royal Navy spokesman said "There has been non malicious damage." now the Royal Navy spokesmen have been pretty busy recently, thanks to the now famous reversing into a parking space in a sub manoeuvre recently perfected on the Isle of Skye.
This time they claimed that no confidential information had been disclosed. Well, apart from user names and passwords that is.
The website currently contains a notice about undergoing essential maintenance work. "Please visit the site again later."
If only the hacker had inserted a few hijack links whilst he was there.
Here are some suggestions:-
YouTube - In The Navy video by The Village People. This is significant because the hacker who is called TinKode has done them too. (YouTube -not The Village People.)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2b1hf_village-people-in-the-navy-version_music
Cow and Chicken
http://www.filestube.com/c/cow+and+chicken+crash+dive
The Navy Lark
http://www.navylark.org.uk/nlepguide.htm
Great Naval Disasters
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Naval-Disasters-Accidents-Century/dp/0760305943
The Highway Code - Reversing
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070340
Let's hope that the Royal Navy website wasn't being run from their own server.
Nobody could be that stupid, could they?
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