If that's the actual monster - it's pale and dark green... I see no blue at all. And that's the most interesting thing I could think of to say about this article except that if they're running on Windows 2000 they deserve everything they get - it's been out of Support for some time now!!

W2K is still in support. The default configuration is however notoriously insecure. I wonder if someone hasn't installed all the patches and run the security lockdown tool?

It is from a US based show called Yo Gabba Gabba. No, I don't know what it means. The show and the previews are quite annoying.

Ha trust me their IT Support is as bad as The IT Crowd! They have as much of a clue as a box of frogs! And web design?? from the Met ?? Shite. They don't use their resources or the people with the skills they bring in some numpty who plugs a network cable into a phone socket and wonders why it doesn't work!

Paris cause she has more of a clue!!

Yup, the offending creature is Brobee.. Famed for his "Party in my tummy" antics that can be seen on YouTube

Damn I'm glad I don't have kids, they would be warped watching that show.

Is stunning. Keep trying! Keep trying! Don't give up (don't stop!). Never give up (don't stop!).

What better advice for the police could there be?

Um, Government IT. ID card database. no2id.net

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear? Yeah right!

Go on all you database techies, flame me....

'Allo, 'allo, 'allo. Wass all this 'ere, then? I 'ave reason to believe you are committing an offence of Aggravated Outdated Computing contrary to the Compulsory Use Of Vista Regulations 2008. I'll 'ave you know, sunshine, that using Windows 2000 is an arrestable offence. You're bang to rights, sonny Jim. Any lip from you an' you get to taste my Tazar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PqjMSNfkU

It LOOKS like an SQL Injection problem to me. It also still appears to be vulnerable.

Paris because she knows the value of sanitizing database inputs.

Some "l33t Noob scripd kiddies" by there spelling. They are probably about 12...

"Some 'l33t Noob scripd kiddies' by there spelling."

When criticising a person's spelling, it is usually a good idea to check your own spelling first. You should have used 'their' not 'there'. So there.

Mine's the one with the 'Idiot's Guide To Pedantry' in the pocket..

No, not noob script kiddies. More like a bunch of 4chan kiddies. The text makes it blindingly obvious.

"Some "l33t Noob scripd kiddies" by there spelling. They are probably about 12..."

What age does that make you? I learnt the their/there/they're difference at about 8... I also learnt how to write a 't' instead of a 'd' at perhaps an earlier age.

Whatever age that makes you, then, watch out- the 12 year olds are probably a lot bigger and stronger. They also told me they wanted to see you in the playground after school

I was told I was too qualified for the job. I'd loved to have done it, and still would, but they thought I'd get bored (on a short term maternity leave replacement.)

If employing stupid people, just so they'll be challenged, is their usual hiring policy, it would be no wonder this kind of thing happens.

Agreed. The use of "lulz" is a dead giveaway.

Paris, because even she cries over 4chan

... They did it for the lulz.

Epic win?

Just a thought, but why should it be illegal to hack a website? The hackers are doing them a big favour in demonstrating that their security is lacking. Especially when no damage was done (egos and the time spent in properly securing the site don't count as damage IMHO).

The next thing is to hear from a "politician" (e.g. a shit-for-brains self-publicising twat who should be sent to Iraq for 6 months to gain our respec') about how this should be illegal. Ban it, burn it, all the same to them.

Morally I just can't see anything wrong with having a go at such a site. In fact I think it's quite funny. Am I odd?

AC just in case I am odd and should be burned at the stake for heresy.

Might have been a honeypot operation and those idiots who are no doubt now running bragging about what they did will soon be working for the police as in "You will tell us about any of your friend's activities that might interest us or you'll be spending some time in a cell with a jolly band of amateur proctologists."

You never know, do you?

10 years aggo I'd say that no, it should not be illegal.

Today... I still say the same thing...

But there are those that would equate hacking a system with out prior consent to shooting someone to show them that their shirt is not bulletproof and that they shouldn't wear them (calm down, I know that murder is not equal to hacking.... really... calm down...you do see the point, right?).

But I hope whoever did it was damn clever and covered their tracks, there's lots of stairs between the datacenter and the interview suite.

Don't worry, I'm sure they went through SEVEN PROXIES.

I thought moot had fled to mexico a long time ago?

Still, reflecting on the style degradation evident in El Reg reporting in the last two month or so, about half of the staff must be hanging around in that hive of scum and villany.

"Just a thought, but why should it be illegal to hack a website? The hackers are doing them a big favour in demonstrating that their security is lacking."

Would you feel differently is it were the website of the Australian Medicines Handbook which was defaced just as you appeared in a hospital Emergency ward? How confident would you be that a rarely-used drug listed as having "no major side effects" was actually so? How good would you feel during the minutes when the staff dug out the book and would you be hoping that the administrative staff had previously applied the online errata to the book, sometime within their well-known negative amount of time to in which see to the important after seeing to the urgent?

Or how about a subtle defacing of the Building Code, say halving the required load for roof beams. Let's say that's discovered five years later when someone questions the entry "133t" in the Index. Would you feel comfortable in your new home?

Sure, a lot of the web is used for entertainment, but some of it is used to inform real work. Sometimes that real work can have real world consequences if fed wrong or late information.

Then there's simple annoyance: having to ring the university and wait hours rather than check a website in seconds to see if you got in. There are laws against other annoyances, so what makes hacking special? Taggers are equally demonstrating a hole in physical security, but building owners don't view tags as a favour.

Don't worry, whenever there are proxies involved it always ends up being someone in the same building!!

Haz u not seen teh LOLCats Bible Translation Project?

As to the crime of running W2K, last year I was obliged to have some sort of brain scan thingie where one gets fitted with a sort of 3D wire frame model of a gimp mask, has one's bonce smeared with #3 grinding paste and then the faithful assistant Igor throws the switch. The PC at the other end of the wires was running W98...

Paris, coz the above incident happened in France.

"Just a thought, but why should it be illegal to hack a website? The hackers are doing them a big favour in demonstrating that their security is lacking."

In the same way as it should be legal to repeatedly stab someone in the face, in order to demonstrate that they need to improve their self-defence skills. If people didn't hack websites they wouldn't need security in the first place.

If only the cops were fair.

Is a corruption of LOL.

Mudkipz, mudkipz, mudkipz.

Also, Rules 1 + 2 etc etc etc