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Firefox Community Site Hacked
Ryan Paul writes "The Mozilla Foundation reveals that remote attackers infiltrated the SpreadFirefox server by exploiting a site vulnerability. While it appears as though no personal information was accessed, e-mails were sent to inform all registered SpreadFirefox users of the breach. Ars Technica has the complete story." From the Ars article: "Preliminary analysis indicates that the exploit was limited to SpreadFirefox exclusively, meaning that other Mozilla Foundation web sites were not attacked or compromised. The vulnerability, which was exploited by 'unknown remote attackers,' could potentially have enabled the forces of computing darkness to obtain the username and password of every registered SpreadFirefox user, as well as any other optional information that users may have provided, including: real name, web site URL, e-mail address, IM screename, and home address."
I am *so* glad I use random passwords that are coordinated in a deeply-encrypted PGP file on an encrypted smartcard :_) for my spreadthefox.net password.
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that means they would know my password is password, my name is jo daddy and my email is anonymous124341234@hotmail.com. oh no.
Evolution or ID?
Aww... Our little baybe fox is growing up! Look, it just had a first big script kiddie attack trying to take over one of its' sites.. Ah, how this time passes. Only yesterday it was a tiny alpha project no one cared about... I think this only goes to show that Firefox is really becoming more popular nowdays.
I'm teminally incoherent
Here, looks like you need this.
(hands over tinfoil hat)
So the solution is to do away with the police and simply build our homes out of 2ft thick titanium. And then when they find a way to cut through that, the news will report it, and then it'll be your fault for not upgrading to diamond plate armor.
Well, as long as they couldn't hack past the browser, I guess they decided to go for the site all about the browser. Makes sense in a sick sort of way.
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"Piter, too, is dead."
I never give real information to any websites.
Me neither, and it's a good thing, too. I've ordered tons of crap from that rip-off place amazon.com, and NONE of it has EVER arrived! It's a good think I didn't give them my real address... who knows what kind of scams they would pull if they could find my house.
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Come on, folks. Every thread on slashdot lately, it seems everyone tries to make analogies, and everyone else is correcting them.
So it's like when you write a book, and something in it is confusing, and then some editor scribbles something less confusing in the margin, but everyone still ends up confused?