Daft
security of the day
Prison officers in a UK prison gave a convicted hacker
access to their computer system.
The bloke man was serving a six-year prison sentence for
stealing millions of dollars through online credit card fraud. He
hacked into his prison's computer network and paralysed the network at
Ranby Prison, close
to Retford, Nottinghamshire, England.
The screws were in need of an internal TV station at the
facility, officers decided against hiring a third party to set up the
system. In a bid to save a bit of cash they gave the job to
Douglas Havard and left him unguarded. He set up a labyrinth of
passwords to lock everyone else out of the
system. Later he gave the key to another prisoner.
Havard was put in isolated confinement and officials were left to complain to the
local papers. Quite why Havard did all this is anyone's guess. It must get dull in prison.
