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SpreadFirefox Security Breached (again)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Kurt writes "The hugely popular SpreadFirefox project, a Firefox community marketing site, has recently fallen victim to a security breach in their TWiki software. This breach has forced the site to shutdown until October 19th. During this time, they will be performing a rebuild of the SpreadFirefox system, to hopefully curb more security breaches."

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  1. Re:Here comes the trolls! by kiwimate · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...this breach was due to poor server administration in that they didn't keep their software patched up to the latest version.

    Yep, agreed.

    Same as the majority * of Microsoft hacks. People not changing their SQL Server sa password from the default, or not applying the patch that blocks that particulary vulnerability that was released by Microsoft six months ago, or...

    * Note: I fully expect someone to come up and say "but what about...". That's why I chose that phrasing. I'm not arguing Microsoft is perfect, and you can certainly argue whether open-source means you get the advantage of transparency **, or whatever your retort may be. But my contention is that the majority of hacks of Microsoft products come down to poor server administration.

    ** Which advantage is also extended to the hackers, of course.