The University of NSW Facebook page has been hacked for the second time in as many days. The university posted a series of photos of Lebanese-American porn star Mia Khalifa on Sunday night, along with links to “extreme curves” and suggestions on the top universities in Italy.
The second round of hacking at the eastern suburbs institution came after it had to scramble to remove similar updates on Saturday – when its open day was marred by posts that included “the internet is freaking out about this Mexican weatherwoman”.
Sydney IT security expert Troy Hunt slammed the university for not implementing basic IT security protocols.
“This isn’t really even being hacked, this is almost certainly someone having a very bad password combination.”
“It is a very simplistic attack that has exploited bad practice. The most likely thing is that this is someone associated with the university who has made a prank.”
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“This isn’t really even being hacked, this is almost certainly someone having a very bad password combination.”
“It is a very simplistic attack that has exploited bad practice. The most likely thing is that this is someone associated with the university who has made a prank.”
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