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Korean MSN Site Hacked
An anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting that MSN's Korean website was hacked in order to allow usernames and passwords to be stolen. Microsoft is initially blaming unpatched, outsourced servers. Just another embarrassment to Microsoft's security push."
Please slashdot, you're not doing any justice by harping on Microsoft. Your bias is just disgusting. Why don't you post one of the 1,000,000 Linux defacements or break-ins that happen monthly?
And I know I'm posting Anonymously. I don't have an account nor do I care to create one at your site until you stop being the Fox Network equivalent for Tech News.
"CNN is reporting that MSN's Korean website was hacked in order to allow usernames and passwords to be stolen. Microsoft is initially blaming unpatched, outsourced servers. Just another embarrassment to Microsoft's security push."
Yes, Microsoft has a good deal of well-deserved bad karma. That you could consider this to be a failing of their software is ridiculous, though. If this is an embarassment to Microsoft, many Free, Open software packages of every sort, from Apache to Linux to OpenBSD to OpenSSH have been so embarassed.
I'm all for calling out Microsoft when they're (a) full of marketing bullshit, (b) way behind everyone else technically, and (c) playing dirty politics. They deserve to be criticized then. But this is simply a non-event. They had a website get cracked. Big deal. Heck, Sourceforge, the largest repository of Open Source software, has been cracked multiple times, if you want an Open Source counterpart.
Blame Microsoft when they deserve it, and your words will get more weight. If Oracle had run out and said that "Our database is hacker-proof", and the next day their website had been broken into and their database cracked, that would be a fair point to criticize someone. But simply "you had a website cracked" is no longer a big deal for most companies.
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
Yeah, but as the article states, the servers were outsorced. Rather than a lesson over the importance of patching, I feel this is more a lesson of if you want something done right, do it yourself.
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I am sorry, Microsoft, but I don't give a damn that you outsourced your servers. The customer is buying your name and reputation when they buy your product. So, you may have saved money on the bottom line, but you have squandered trust the consumer had for you. At some point in the future, you will realize what a valuable commodity this was and how expensive it is to re-acquire.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
It's an embarrassment to Koreans who have long been the leaders in wide-spread broadband and internet usage. You'd have expected that they, of all nationalities, would have their act together when it came to running servers.
How do you figure that? Widespread broadband penetration does not imply widespread knowledge of sound security principles. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Korean servers are hacked just as often as the servers in any other nation -- the only differing being that the hackers/scriddies use higher speed connections.
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I got $5 that says this translates to "formatted and reinstalled the OS..."
Well, what would you do?
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
And yet there probably isn't a piece of complex software in existance that hasn't needed a patch to fix a problem...
To me that's just a sign they're willing to be pragmatic and use what works.
;)
They also have frequently spread FUD about "what works", so "pragmatic" isn't the first word that comes to my mind about them
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Well, what would you do?
Formatted and installed a different OS.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Microsoft's virtual monopoly for the desktop OS means that security vulnerabilities are profitable. People buy a new computer when they find the old one has become slow. The don't realize they are infected, and that their computer became imperceptibly slower each time it got infected.
People wonder why people have doubts about open source. One reason is accountability.
If linux.org got hacked, who'd care, or even if slashdot ( remember ). MS at least is standing up and admiting it has a problem. OS just hides behind it's structure. Because we are open we will get patched.
Somebody hacked into their computers in order to steal password, not to shame MS. Be mad at the hackers for once. Is this going to be any different if/when MS is not king of the hill? No, get over it.
On a side note. Has slashdot ever consider not allowing posts to a story? This is a classic example of a useless post section. About the only thing useful might be how they got in, but no is going to know that until this story isn't on the front page.
Can we IhateMS.slashdot.org and stick these stories there?