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Home Office page links to porn site

The British Home Office this week found itself in an embarrassing position after one of the links on the organisation's website directed users to a Japanese pornography site.

An individual trying to find more information about new regulations on the website discovered the link and contacted the BBC, which notified the Home Office of the anomaly.

The news provider reports that the Home Office said the link, which was meant to lead to a body calling itself the Technical Advisory Board, was defunct.

However, according to online security expert Graham Cluley, the chief technology officer of Sophos, the link "can still be found as clickable hotlinks in PDF documents hosted on [the Home Office] website".

"It took me less than 30 seconds to find the offending link on the Home Office's website, so it doesn't appear that their clean-up can have been that thorough," he wrote on his blog.

He went on to state that other organisations that linked to the Technical Advisory Board before may be inadvertently linking to the pornography site.

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