http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4195339.stm
> Saturday, 22 January, 2005, 07:30 GMT
Tsunami fund 'hacking' is probed
An attempt to hack into the website of the Disasters and Emergency Committee
(DEC) that was set up after the Asian tsunami, is being investigated.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit have begun an
inquiry after BT blocked the attempt on New Year's Eve.
A 28-year-old man from east London was arrested and released on bail in
connection with alleged offences.
Police are examining computer equipment seized during a search.
The bailed man, who was arrested under the Computer Misuse Act at an address in
London's Bishopsgate on Thursday, is due to return to a police station in
February.
A spokesman for the Met said the DEC website continued to be secure and the
systems in place meant the attempted breach was identified and blocked very
quickly.
The DEC, which estimates to raise Â200m to help tsunami victims, said it was
alerted by BT staff.
Chief executive Brendan Gormley reassured the public that "every penny" donated over the internet was safe and had reached the DEC.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the
blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator
decided that this "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt,
and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British
Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw
hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying it's type and it's doing
strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker.
Armed police, a van, a police cell and national news later the police have
gone in SWAT styley and arrested someone having their lunch.
Out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad PR for
BT and the Police....
So just goes to show if you use anything other than Firefox or IE and you rely on someone else to interogate access logs or IDS logs you too could be sitting in a paper suit in a cell :(
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