Police seek hacker after AusCERT presentation

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Submission + - Police seek hacker after AusCERT presentation (scmagazine.com.au)

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littlekorea

on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @05:31AM

littlekorea writes: "Queensland Police have commenced informal investigations into a presentation at Australian IT security conference AusCERT today, after a hacker used a brute force attack to obtain a personal photograph held within the URL of a private Facebook profile."

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