GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password

Johnny Fusion writes "The writer of the Securi Security Blog had an alarming awakening when a honeypot on port 22 on a GoDaddy-hosted VPS recorded login attempts using his GoDaddy username and password and even an attempt to login as root. It turns out the attempt was actually from within GoDaddy's network. Before he could 'alert' GoDaddy about the security breach, he got an email from GoDaddy Demanding his root login credentials. There is an update where GoDaddy explains itself and says they will change policy."

Comments

Re:The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy.

[Rob the Bold]

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

When you cite the man's blog that has absolutely nothing to do with the hosting company he is CEO of, to state that he is "pro-violence", you kind of blow your the credibility of your argument. Please keep your personal political opinions out of non-political debates. What you did there is no better than any other meritless political smear campaign.

The rest of your post was spot-on, though, and I wouldn't trust GoDaddy with my first name.

You can base your opinion of a corporation on the politics of its CEO. Unless you're afraid that ACs will criticize you . . . No, it't the Anonymous Cowards!!!!1! Oh noes!

But seriously, folks. If a CEO is naive enough to think that no one will be impressed by his politics, positively or negatively, it's hard to imagine how he got so far in the first place. More likely, a CEO figures he'll play the percentages. That's how smart managers win ball games.