techcrunch.com— The Twitter document leak fiasco started with the simple story of personal accounts of Twitter employees being hacked. Here's how the hacker obtained the necessary information..
Jul 19, 2009View in Crawl 4
Yes, have used this once to kill access. True, was my fault for not signing out properly but the bastard shouldn't have kept my account open like that.
Yes, good for the 0.2% of web user who know that IP does not only mean "Intellectual Property".This was an accident waiting to happen; cloud stuff is great for personal use but far too immature to conduct business. One has to have many layers of security; there is no DMZ in the cloud.
Apparently byakkun would like to bury his head in the sand, and thinks telling everyone else to do the same is good security practice."Security by obscurity," we call that. And if we could execute every brain-dead fool who thinks there is any merit or value to that whatsoever (even as a layer over /real/ security), the world would be a better place. Crimes of opportunity are incredibly rare, while crimes of (user/victim) ignorance take the lion's share in IT.
xposeJul 20, 2009
Guessing his secondary "forgot password" email addy, then finding out its expired was nicely done.
catvllvsJul 20, 2009
Cool!I just bought your mother on <a class="user" href="http://www.isellmywhoremother.com">http://www.isellmywhoremother.com</a>
undervaluedJul 20, 2009
Yes, have used this once to kill access. True, was my fault for not signing out properly but the bastard shouldn't have kept my account open like that.
futureguyJul 20, 2009
Yes, good for the 0.2% of web user who know that IP does not only mean "Intellectual Property".This was an accident waiting to happen; cloud stuff is great for personal use but far too immature to conduct business. One has to have many layers of security; there is no DMZ in the cloud.
zakatovJul 20, 2009
DMZ = demilitarized zone (i.e. no security). I think you meant something else.
honoredmuleJul 20, 2009
Apparently byakkun would like to bury his head in the sand, and thinks telling everyone else to do the same is good security practice."Security by obscurity," we call that. And if we could execute every brain-dead fool who thinks there is any merit or value to that whatsoever (even as a layer over /real/ security), the world would be a better place. Crimes of opportunity are incredibly rare, while crimes of (user/victim) ignorance take the lion's share in IT.
trevorjezJul 20, 2009
The cloud is so safe...