A six year-old child has hacked into the UK Parliament’s computer system, installing a keylogger onto an MP’s machine. As part of an experiment run by the UK campaign ‘Get Safe Online’, the minister agreed to leave her PC unattended for 60 seconds.
In a quarter of that time, the schoolgirl had successfully installed an application that monitored every keystroke without anyone noticing. The keylogger, if left undetected, would have recorded everything the MP wrote on her PC in the next six months.
While the MP might have declared herself “surprised” it was probably somewhat predictable that the Houses of Parliament refused to comment. It’s always encouraging to hear stories about the strength of IT security measures applied to government-owned PCs….
