<div dir="ltr">It's interesting that a "commonly known exploit" was used to "hack" a government website.<div><br></div><div style>If it was actually exploited remotely and assuming it is a government website it's safe to assume it was compliant with all of the various security standards, so what does that say for all of the standards and certification testing that's required these days? </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Businesses spend huge amounts of money complying with those requirements just to be allowed to stay in business but when Government sites get hacked through "commonly known exploits", and assuming they're the champions of those rules seeing as they created them, it has to be questioned the value of those rules and certifications in the first place.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/australian-lulzsec-hacker-arrested-20130424-2idmw.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/australian-lulzsec-hacker-arrested-20130424-2idmw.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Looks like one of our own has been caught doing naughtyness.</div><div><br></div><div>Matthew Flannery spent a 18 months at Cirrus Communications and a year at BigAir in network operations.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://au.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-flannery/30/ab9/15a" target="_blank">http://au.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-flannery/30/ab9/15a</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Decent guy from what I know.</div>
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