Here’s a hacking incident that is kinda close to home. The Durham Regional police are based to the east of the GTA (greater Toronto area). Apparently a hacker compromised their systems and defaced their web page.
A spokesman at the service’s communication’s department said police learned about the wolf image about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. He said the service’s IT department was to remove it Monday.However, after hearing from a Metroland editor that the wolf was blocking an area of the website which allowed people to report a crime, he said the IT department would be notified immediately.
The site, which is running on IIS 5.0 is available again. There was no word at press time as to whether the hacker could be run to ground.
We’ll update this if we hear anymore information.
UPDATE: The police are on the trail. I have to admit this quote made me shoot coffee through my nose.
“It didn’t affect anything security-wise; it just affected our front page,” Sgt. McCurbin said.
Emphasis added by moi.
Tags: Durham Regional Police, Hacker, Defacement
