Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 23, 2007 @01:07AM from the fair-and-balanced dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While browsing around the Fox News website, I found that directory indexes are turned on. So, I started following the tree up, until I got to /admin. Eventually, I found my way into /admin/xml_parser/zdnet/, in which, there is a shell script. Seeing as it's a shell script, and I use Linux, I took a peek. Inside, is a username and password to an FTP. So, of course, I tried to login. The result? Epic fail on Fox's part. And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic." It's already been changed of course, but that's still pretty amusing.

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Re:Wasted chance by Guuge · 2007-07-23 03:59 · Score: 0, Troll

Wouldn't an obscure piece of tax legislation be a lot easier than concocting a war?

Tax legislation? That makes no sense. The rest of your post is even worse.
Re:North Korea by Pope · 2007-07-23 05:37 · Score: 0, Troll

More like the US invades weaklings that pissed off the President's daddy a decade earlier. ;)

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