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Quebec boy, 12, pleads guilty to hacking government websites

21 点作者 bgtyhn超过 11 年前

10 条评论

Frozenlock超过 11 年前
Better title: &quot;A 12 years old boy hacked your government websites. Lack of security is concerning.&quot;<p>Seriously, security on governmental websites (in Canada and Québec) is terrible.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they stored password in plain text: they ask you to choose a shorter password if yours is too long.
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teamonkey超过 11 年前
&gt; Court heard the boy used three different computer attacks, one which resulted in a denial of service to those trying to access the websites and flooded servers, making them ineffective.<p>&gt; In another method he would alter information and make it appear as the homepage.<p>&gt; His third tactic involved exploiting security holes in order to access database servers.<p>&gt; &quot;And he told others how to do it,&quot; a police expert testified in Montreal on Thursday.<p>And now so has the Toronto Sun, because frankly, that&#x27;s all the info a script kiddie will need, if they couldn&#x27;t work it out themselves.
simlevesque超过 11 年前
I have an uncle who works for a infosec company which has contracts with the provincial government. I know that internally, the police of the province (which is called the SQ) has no real power in terms of hacking investigation. It really is sad. They rely on gathering info from sources such as Facebook, that&#x27;s how they got the kid.<p>What this article does not say is that right now is his first court hearing but they had found his identity a couple of months ago. My uncle was at the press conference where they said that they had found him and after it was finished he asked one the police officer on the case how they had found him. He straight up told him that they found him because he talked about it to his friends on Facebook. If not for that, the kid would not have been caught. The alternative is to wait for him to commit a crime against the great US of A and have the FBI do the job.<p>For the record, I&#x27;m a 20 year old guy from Quebec and I really wonder what I could have done if I tried my hands at it. I&#x27;m also glad I didn&#x27;t.
InternalRun超过 11 年前
I always hate the comments on these type of articles.<p>&quot;the government should hire him before someone else gets him&quot;<p>In reply<p>&quot;you can be sure there is a line up already - this kid is a treasure&quot;
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iLoch超过 11 年前
Probably the work of CGI Group! :) Not that I really want to bash my follow Canadian developers, but can we please get some experienced developers working on these sites?
deletes超过 11 年前
How are they sure he wasn&#x27;t just a pawn or a script kiddie. I say this because he pleaded guilty; was there some serious analysis done or did they just got his address?
adamnemecek超过 11 年前
I&#x27;m curious how many &#x27;hackers&#x27; actually wear a hoodie when &#x27;hacking&#x27;.
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Balgair超过 11 年前
Well, that&#x27;s embarrassing.
avty超过 11 年前
We are all hackers now.
joelgrus超过 11 年前
It took me a minute to figure out what a &quot;Que. boy&quot; was.