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Posted by Steven Parker on 22 November 2001 - 12:28 · no comments & 30 views
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your details are currently circulating the underworld of anarchists and credit card fraudsters, so we highly recommend that you contact your bank before much fraud is committed. we have also distributed over a million e-mail addresses to marketing and 'spam' organisations, so you will certainly have a lot of fun deleting unwanted e-mail into the future!
online companies can learn many lessons from this compromise -
1. do not use the same root or administrative (oracle, webserv, etc.) user passwords across different hosts on the same network.
2. never assume that by installing the latest security patches and installing ssh, that you are secure.
3. do not use insecure authentication methods, including nis, nis+ or ..rhosts.
4. do not protect your passwords with des in your shadow files, use md5.
end users can learn an important lesson from this compromise -
do not trust companies with your details online.
its been emotional.
its been emotional. we'd like to thank the playboy systems team for providing us with an interesting and challenging target. i'm sure that a big security company will make easy money auditing their systems and hopefully deploying a more secure network - although we'll be back to test it again.
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