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Subject: [ISN] Identity theft hackers attack MI5 website
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2009-07-30 10:17:37
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0907300517280.24697 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5937833/Identity-theft-hackers-attack-MI5-website.html
By Alastair Jamieson
Telegraph.co.uk
30 July 2009
The security breach could also have enabled the hackers to download
viruses onto the machines of anyone using the organisation's website,
the Daily Express reported.
A Whitehall spokeswoman said there had been a "small issue" with a
search engine linked to the MI5 website.
She said: "MI5 take security very seriously. Their website is secure and
hosted in a high security environment."
Tory MP Patrick Mercer, who is chairman of the Commons'
counter-terrorism sub-committee, told the newspaper: "Having potentially
highly-classified information available to hackers is deeply concerning.
[...]
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