Hacking

A UK Parliament’s computer was hacked by a six-year-old child after he managed to install a keylogger on the system. It was a part of a UK campaign meant to improve the security of the online activities using several experiments. The Get Safe Online program was started some time ago and is currently promoted through a website that presents useful statistics and number about the online security. “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,” the same author sustained. ...