Shouldn't apologies be sent to all users who had their password set to 'netguide'?
--------------------------------------------------- Keri Henare Web Designer/Developer [e] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m] 021 874 552 [p] 09 889 2749 [w] www.pixelfusion.co.nz On 5/09/2008, at 4:54 PM, Rob wrote: > Hi All > > All good points. You guys must brought this up very very quickly, in > fact the email had only gone to a very small bunch of our users. So > within a short amount of time the site was taken down while we > generate random passwords for each user and resend to email accounts. > > We do take the security of our web users very seriously and once > notified started work on the over site immediately. > > Apologies will be sent to the extremely small number of customers > that have easily guessed logins. > > Regards > > Rob & Sean > Action Media > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Nathan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > I think they might have heard us... > "Down for maintenance" > > http://www.netguide.co.nz/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Aaron Cooper > Sent: Friday, 5 September 2008 4:25 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: [phpug] Re: [OT] Security & NetGuide > > > What a nightmare. > > On a Friday too... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JJ @ MyHost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 4:12 PM > Subject: [phpug] Re: [OT] Security & NetGuide > > > > > > That's a phenomenally lax attitude to security and privacy. > > > > 1) When the forums and other features are launched, what's the > betting > > that a bunch of people will suddenly discover gross misuse of their > > accounts. > > > > 2) User email addresses are probably being harvested as we speak. > > > > 3) As Craig pointed out, other confused users will probably find > their > > password changed out from under them and their account no longer > > accessible. > > > > I'm glad this was the "easiest" thing to do for Netguide, Rob. > What a > > shame about the potential consequences... Good luck with that. Ouch! > > > > -- > > JJ @ MyHost > > http://www.myhost.co.nz/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
