Password != secure
Reading a story on how an attacker broke into the administrative interface to twitter was the following quote: "One of the admins has a yahoo account, i've reset the password by answering to the secret question. Then, in the mailbox, i have found her twitter password." Social engineering and good guessing trumps security every time. Twitter have confirmed the intrusion, so sad but true. No hacking necessary. I could probably rant for hours on the subject, but most of you know the story. Enough said.
Cheers,
Adrien de Beaupré
Intru-shun.ca Inc.
Keywords: twitter hack
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M Guirao
May 1st 2009
1 decade ago