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Home Office's new 'sex scandal' after hackers link website to Japanese pornography
2009-04-08 06:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168095/Home-Offices-new-sex-scandal-hackers-link-website-Japanese-pornography.html By Eddie Wrenn The Daily Mail 07th April 2009 The consolation for Jacqui Smith is that at least it wasn't her husband to blame this time. Richard Timney may have landed the Home Secretary in trouble by claiming two 'adult' movies on her MPs' expenses. But it was a computer hacker rather than Miss Smith's husband who was up to no good with pornography yesterday. The cyber-intruder managed to hijack a link which had been placed on the Home Office's website to an information page run by the Government's Technical Advisory Board, to provide information about the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism. Instead of information about new EU surveillance powers, visitors were greeted with some hardcore Japanese pornography. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/


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