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Cyber security experts say it was 'highly unlikely' that Jarryd Hayne was set up by a hacker when sexually explicit content began playing in front of hundreds of school children as he was delivering an online safety talk.
The NRL star's online browsing history was being shown on a screen and featured mostly sports images, when a pornographic website was displayed on the screen to the 200-plus students in attendance at Robina State High School on the Gold Coast.
Norton Security, on whose behalf Hayne was presenting the talk, have said that they could 'categorically confirm' the images were not from Hayne's mobile phone.
But Nigel Phair, Director of the Centre for Internet Security at the University of Canberra, has called out Norton and labelled their explanation 'highly unlikely'.
'It's highly unlikely,' Mr Phair told Daily Mail Australia.
'Even with an open Wi-Fi network, you just can't inject browsing history into someone's device.'
He said that while there were a few unknown factors - such as what type of network was being used and whether Hayne's browsing history was being live-streamed or replicated - it was still a long shot that the images were injected by a hacker.
'It's possible, but not probable. Everything's possible online ... there's sophisticated hackers that could have put up things on the screen that were porn images.'
Professor Albert Zomaya, Chair of High Performance Computing and Networking at the University of Sydney, also questioned Norton's technical explanation.
'To get to your device, and inject stuff into the web browsing history, you’d have to be a very dedicated and sophisticated hacker,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'It’s not undoable - one cannot deny anything these days with security - but it’s highly improbable given the semantics.
In a statement released to Daily Mail Australia on Monday night, Norton said it was continuing to investigate the incident.
'However, (we) can categorically confirm that the inappropriate images were not from Jarryd's mobile phone,' the statement said.
'The content was traced back to a Samsung device while Jarryd was utilising an iPhone.'
'Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that any of the students from the school were involved in the incident.'
Immediately after the botched presentation Nick Savvides, spokesman for Norton, said someone had 'injected unwanted materials' into the presentation.
'It's unfortunate and all I can say (is) it definitely was not Jarryd's device,' Mr Savvides said.
'Connecting to open networks, people can see what you're doing and in this case, inject unwanted materials.'
A spokeswoman for Norton told Daily Mail Australia that an 'unknown user connected to the network'.
She stressed that Jarryd Hayne had no involvement in the explicit images on the screen and said that Mr Savvides use of the word 'inject' may have confused experts.
Hayne was shocked by the appearance of the images, which remained on the screen for a number of seconds and included lewd acts and a topless woman.
'It was (awkward),' he said.
'I shut my phone straight away so that way I was logged off.
'Wow.'
The school's principal, Ms Warwick, said she had been assured by Norton that the porn gaffe was a one-off mistake that would not happen in future presentations.
'The technology was shut down immediately and the provider's staff were quick to apologise,' she said in a statement released by the Department of Education.
'The images displayed were not from any devices belonging to anyone in the room.
'I am disappointed that students were exposed to the images and the school will be offering support to any students that need it.'
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Norton for comment.
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The NRL star's online browsing history was being shown on a screen and featured mostly sports images, when a pornographic website was displayed on the screen to the 200-plus students in attendance at Robina State High School on the Gold Coast.
Norton Security, on whose behalf Hayne was presenting the talk, have said that they could 'categorically confirm' the images were not from Hayne's mobile phone.
But Nigel Phair, Director of the Centre for Internet Security at the University of Canberra, has called out Norton and labelled their explanation 'highly unlikely'.
'It's highly unlikely,' Mr Phair told Daily Mail Australia.
'Even with an open Wi-Fi network, you just can't inject browsing history into someone's device.'
He said that while there were a few unknown factors - such as what type of network was being used and whether Hayne's browsing history was being live-streamed or replicated - it was still a long shot that the images were injected by a hacker.
'It's possible, but not probable. Everything's possible online ... there's sophisticated hackers that could have put up things on the screen that were porn images.'
Professor Albert Zomaya, Chair of High Performance Computing and Networking at the University of Sydney, also questioned Norton's technical explanation.
'To get to your device, and inject stuff into the web browsing history, you’d have to be a very dedicated and sophisticated hacker,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'It’s not undoable - one cannot deny anything these days with security - but it’s highly improbable given the semantics.
In a statement released to Daily Mail Australia on Monday night, Norton said it was continuing to investigate the incident.
'However, (we) can categorically confirm that the inappropriate images were not from Jarryd's mobile phone,' the statement said.
'The content was traced back to a Samsung device while Jarryd was utilising an iPhone.'
'Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that any of the students from the school were involved in the incident.'
Immediately after the botched presentation Nick Savvides, spokesman for Norton, said someone had 'injected unwanted materials' into the presentation.
'It's unfortunate and all I can say (is) it definitely was not Jarryd's device,' Mr Savvides said.
'Connecting to open networks, people can see what you're doing and in this case, inject unwanted materials.'
A spokeswoman for Norton told Daily Mail Australia that an 'unknown user connected to the network'.
She stressed that Jarryd Hayne had no involvement in the explicit images on the screen and said that Mr Savvides use of the word 'inject' may have confused experts.
Hayne was shocked by the appearance of the images, which remained on the screen for a number of seconds and included lewd acts and a topless woman.
'It was (awkward),' he said.
'I shut my phone straight away so that way I was logged off.
'Wow.'
The school's principal, Ms Warwick, said she had been assured by Norton that the porn gaffe was a one-off mistake that would not happen in future presentations.
'The technology was shut down immediately and the provider's staff were quick to apologise,' she said in a statement released by the Department of Education.
'The images displayed were not from any devices belonging to anyone in the room.
'I am disappointed that students were exposed to the images and the school will be offering support to any students that need it.'
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Norton for comment.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-come-Jarryd-Hayne-s-phone.html#ixzz4PP4KqJAg
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