RE: [plug] GMA-7 website hacked!

[Ronneil Camara]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pablo Manalastas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plug] GMA-7 website hacked!
> 
> From these two post, do we assume that root's password was stolen?
> If it is an ordinary user's password that was stolen, doing that
> kind of hack is still quite a challenge, so it must be root's
> password that the hacker got.
> 
> This is a security issue, and your experience will be very
> helpful to all of us who run publicly accessible websites.
> 

The malicious hack could have been coordinated on the inside.

Social Engineering.

-onie
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