http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8574259.stm
It seems guessing someone's facebook password now makes you a hacker.
Who pays people to write stories like this?!
Oh wait it's the BBC :(
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8574259.stm
It seems guessing someone's facebook password now makes you a hacker.
Who pays people to write stories like this?!
Oh wait it's the BBC :(
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president of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace.
OMFG HAXX!!!
Depends on your definition of hacking. But going with a fairly loose "attempting to bypass a security measure" then yeah, I'd say trying to guess someone elses password just about qualifies. And the article doesn't refer to any of the respondent to the survey as "hackers", it simply describes their activity as "hacking", which (IMNSHO) is a much looser description...
No guessing isn't hacking at all. Which muppet wrote that article?
Well if they all want to use either the name of one of their kids, their pets name or their 'pet name' for their partner as a password then they deserve to be hacked in all honesty.
I bet 1/2 that information is visable on their facebook page so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to read their profile and have a good guess at their password.
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Originally Posted by scaryjim
And is almost certainly an offence under the computer misuse act. Successfully guessing a password and then using it to cause disruption would be a further (more serious) offence.
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Originally Posted by scaryjim
In my not so humble opinion?
Quality :D
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Originally Posted by peterb
If you aren't authorised to have access, any method that gets you access is hacking, even watching someone type their password can be classed as this
Of course it's hacking. What are brute exploits if not guessing (repeated lots of times)?
of course its hacking..
This. A colleague of mine was off, and we needed to get into her laptop. I just asked what were her sons names, and bingo...I was in... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace are coming for you, you should be able to hear the e-sirens in the distanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Singh400
I guess it wasn't her personal laptop, but a corporate one - andf you were authorised to to try it, in which case...Quote:
Originally Posted by Singh400
they won't.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK
yes they will, they already areQuote:
Originally Posted by peterb
My opinions are never humble - so I might as well be up-front about it :DQuote:
Originally Posted by format
the main stream never got the distinction between hacker and cracker.
they never will, the word has entered common useage as cracker so it now means that. End of debate.
i always take the "humble" to be quite "not at all humble" anyway, your right people should just leave that out - nobody thinks "oo this guy is humble" it just adds a smug sheen to whatever is being said.Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
No it wasn't her personal one, and yes I was asked by my manager to get into it (I am the self-confessed geek in the team). But not like I would be bother if it was her personal one. If you have an easy password or easy one to guess you are asking to be hacked.Quote:
Originally Posted by peterb
And where do I stand on the ICT dept leaving admin password on my hard drive in the winnt.sif file? :laugh: No, I am not kidding.
Probably in the same place as I did when, during a contracting appointment, I found the administrative passwords to a major financial system in plain text in a BAT file on a publically accessible share... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Singh400
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Robbie "Cracker" Coltrane
This news 'story' was taken from a press release sent out by Eskenz PR this morning.
Note that the survey was conducted with Tufin, who are, and I quote:
Where'd I get all this info from? The bottom of the press released that story came from:Quote:
"Tufin™ is the leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions that enable companies to cost-effectively manage their network security policy, comply with regulatory standards, and minimize IT risk. With a combination of accuracy and simplicity, Tufin empowers security officers to perform reliable audits and demonstrate compliance with corporate and government standards. Founded in 2005 by leading firewall and business systems experts, Tufin serves more than 500 customers in industries from telecom and financial services to energy, transportation and pharmaceuticals. For more information visit www.tufin.com, or follow Tufin on:
Twitter at http://twitter.com/TufinTech,
LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1968264,
FaceBook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84473097725,
The Tufin Blog at http://tufintech.wordpress.com/,
The Tufin Channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/Tufintech"
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NEWS RELEASE
Survey finds 1 in 4 kids have tried hacking!
School computers a great avenue to hack friends
Facebook and email accounts – all child’s play!
London, 18th March 2010: Despite 78% agreeing that it is wrong, 1 in 4 of UK’s children have tried their hand at hacking into others’ Facebook accounts mostly by surreptitiously using the victims passwords– that is the stark finding of a survey released today. And it’s not just the boys – 47% admitting guilt are girls. The study of 1,000 youngsters from London and 150 from Cumbria found that although 27% were doing so from the relatively safe confines of their bedrooms, these juvenile offenders are utilising computers in Internet Cafés (22%), the ICT suite at school (21%), and a friend’s machine (19%). The most common reason was for fun (46%) however 21% aimed to cause disruption and a resourceful 20% thought they could generate an income from the activity. A small minority (5%) were switching to the dark side as a career move!
It’s not all one-sided though, as the kids revealed they’d also fallen victim with over a third having had either their Facebook or email account hacked.
Conducted by IT security experts Tufin Technologies in conjunction with Cumbria Constabulary, the survey surprisingly revealed that the Cumbrian children with hacking habits were much younger than their city counterparts, with 78% having done so before their 13th birthday – in London 44% were under 16 with only 16% of these yet to enter their teens.
When the survey dug a little deeper it unearthed that of the children who had hacked over a quarter had targeted Facebook accounts, 18% went for a friends email, 7% for online shopping sites, a cheeky 6% besieged their parents email, and 5% breached the school website. A bold 3% had honed their skills enough to aim much higher with corporate websites under their belts.
It’s not all doom and gloom - there is some comfort to be drawn from the 27% of our apprentice criminals that were caught. 82% of the sample confessed hacking wasn’t actually that easy in practice and a commendable 70% labelled the practice as ‘uncool’!
Cumbria Constabulary’s Deputy Chief Constable Stuart Hyde ACPO lead on E-Crime Prevention and President of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), an organisation which sees law enforcement and industry working together to increase people’s personal and professional knowledge of cyber crime issues said: “What this survey starkly highlights is that hacking into personal online accounts whether email or Facebook can be child’s play if users do not protect their own passwords. It illustrates the importance of keeping your passwords strong, secure and changing them regularly to help protect your accounts from unscrupulous people of all ages. We live in a world where social networking, email and the internet are embedded into our every day lives from a far younger age so early education is essential to ensure young people know the devastating consequences this activity can have.”
“Only 53% of the children surveyed felt that hacking (i.e. using someone else’s account) was illegal which shows there is a real need to educate youngsters to the dangers both so they are deterred from trying it and also so they know how to protect their own accounts. Hacking is illegal and we need to ensure everyone understands that,” Hyde concluded.
Picking up from this point, Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin Technologies said, “One of the most worrying statistics from this survey is the staggering numbers of kids that are successful and the ages involved. Hacking has changed a lot in the past few years from the curiosity or fun factor to now making serious money or causing havoc in the corporate environment. Our job as IT security professionals is to stop hackers in their tracks and that means educating the kids as the Police have said at a very young age.”
One lesson from this study is that if our children are able to hack these types of sites, then it must be child’s play for those with criminal intent. However, there are some things that can be done to protect our online activity:
1. Install security software: anti-virus, anti-spyware and a firewall
2. Never disclose passwords or respond to emails that ask us for this information
3. Vary your user name and passwords between sites. That way if one account is compromised it can limit the damage of others being breached
4. Untick ‘remember me’ boxes for user name and passwords, especially for email accounts, online banking, social media websites etc. if your computer is used by other members of the household – and therefore possibly their friends
5. Be careful what you talk about in chat rooms, you never know who you’re talking to or who’s listening in. Someone with an ulterior motive could be gathering information spanning many months that individually tells you nothing but pieced together provides a complete picture
6. Periodically change your username and password, immediately if you suspect someone may know it.
7. Protect yourself against eavesdroppers and freeloaders by using encryption on your wireless network
8. Use a password manager such as Password Safe by Bruce Schneier (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/)
To find out more about how to protect yourself online log on to: http://www.cumbria.police.uk/advice-...ion/on-the-web
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Notes to editors:
This survey was carried out by independent researchers for Tufin Technologies amongst 1000 teenagers in London and 150 children in Cumbria who participated online.
If you would like to talk to Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin Technologies please contact:
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Eskenzi PR
Tel : +xxxxxxx
Email : xxxxxx@eskenzipr.com
About Tufin Technologies, Inc.
Tufin™ is the leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions that enable companies to cost-effectively manage their network security policy, comply with regulatory standards, and minimize IT risk. With a combination of accuracy and simplicity, Tufin empowers security officers to perform reliable audits and demonstrate compliance with corporate and government standards. Founded in 2005 by leading firewall and business systems experts, Tufin serves more than 500 customers in industries from telecom and financial services to energy, transportation and pharmaceuticals. For more information visit www.tufin.com, or follow Tufin on:
Twitter at http://twitter.com/TufinTech,
LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1968264,
FaceBook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84473097725,
The Tufin Blog at http://tufintech.wordpress.com/,
The Tufin Channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/Tufintech
If you would like to organise an interview with DCC Stuart Hyde please contact Joana Dowling at Cumbria Constabulary Press Office on xxxxxxxx or Michael Baker at ACPO Press Office on xxxxxxx.
Stuart Hyde is Deputy Chief Constable of Cumbria Constabulary and ACPO lead on E-Crime Prevention and President of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB). POLCYB is an organisation which sees law enforcement and industry working together to increase people’s personal and professional knowledge of cyber crime issues.
What about guessing someones hotmail secret question - is this still hacking?
Or using a VNC viewer that bypasses encryption?
Anything that gives you access that you do not have permission/authorisation for is hackingQuote:
Originally Posted by Ben Rogers
Try and hack my Gmail pass, honestly, even I forget it on a daily basis :D
I thought it was was similar - if I didn't have content from the owner of the account / PC to access then it would be classed as hacking.Quote:
Originally Posted by finlay666