I read an article that talked about a hack attempt on the website from the metropolitan police [1], better known as Scotland Yard. Apparently it got defaced [2], the attackers placed a silly picture of a greenish cuddly monster and a message mocking Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism unit. The Register talks about an insecure Windows server. The truth is far more numbing than you would expect, I go for SQL injection because this way it would be very easy to modify their CMS. And this probably happened, since it was not a complete index defacement. read more »


