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Memo Details Gawker Security Strategy
Trailrunner7 writes "After a hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media that yielded more than one million passwords, the online media company's chief technology officer has announced new defense strategies aimed at placating their users and preventing further humiliating data breaches. Thomas Plunkett issued a company-wide memo on Friday that lays out the new security measures and suggests the company overlooked security concerns in the rush to develop new features."
I read it, but nowhere it mentions not being douchebags. Not gonna work.
In recent weeks, intruders were able to gain access to our web servers by exploiting a vulnerability in our source code, allowing them to gain access to user data and passwords.
They are still blaming bugs in code. Pretending to be mistakes made by low level programming flunkies. The problem was using an unsalted hash that allowed them to do a simple dictionary attack. Further even the top guys were using very simple passwords. Used the same password for multiple accounts. Continued to leave other accounts and usernames unlocked even after knowing one account using that password has been compromised.
No. The real problem was that the managers and the top dogs drawing top salaries were clueless idiots. Pretending that it was some kind of stupid bug left in code by some low level programmer shows how disconnected these bozos are from reality.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
There's a good chance you've been to one of their sites before. Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and io9 are their bigger ones I can recall -- I'm sure there are others. I personally read Gizmodo and io9 quite often, though I've never made an account with them.