the anatomy of the twitter attack on techcrunch

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the anatomy of the twitter attack on techcrunch

mari@pi Σαβ. 25 Ιούλ. 2009 16:42 0 views 1 σχόλια

...Like other successful attacks, Hacker Croll used the same combination
of patience, sheer determination and somewhat elementary methods to
gain access to a frightening number of accounts and services related to
Twitter and Twitter employees. The list of services affected either
directly, or indirectly, are some of the most popular web applications
and services in use today - Gmail, Google Apps, GoDaddy, MobileMe,
AT&T, Amazon, Hotmail, Paypal and iTunes . Taken individually, most
of these services have reasonable security precautions against
intrusion. But there are huge weaknesses when they are looked at
together, as an ecosystem. Like dominoes, once one fell (Gmail was the
first to go), the others all tumbled as well. The end result was chaos,
and raises important questions about how private corporate and personal
information is managed and secured in a time when the trend is towards
more data, applications and entire user identities being hosted on the
web and 'in the cloud’...

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