:eek::eek: A little notice, please?!?
Damn interesting stuff. I gotta root for Anonymous on this one. Barr tried to use them to enrich himself and got burned. I hope he never works in cybersecurity again.
The only guy I really feel bad for here is Greg Hoglund. The only thing he was guilty of was having a laughably insecure database.
The full list of (completely fantastic) articles from Ars Technica about this hack can be found here. (A few of these have already been linked to.)
I believe Stephen Colbert had the best analogy to describe this situation, but I’m not going to find that clip on YouTube while at work.
The social engineering is the most dangerous aspect of this. I’ve been doing temp jobs for three years. I make minimum wage at most of these jobs or around a dollar more.
Yet I have access to data or have easy access to people who have the data. For all the brilliance of hacking it’s still easy to simply offer low level employees $50.00 to give you the info.