Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? 611
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.
Wasted chance (Score:5, Funny)
HaHa (Score:5, Funny)
Nice... (Score:5, Funny)
oblig SpaceBalls (Score:0, Funny)
Changed by whom? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wasted chance (Score:5, Funny)
Great all we need. (Score:5, Funny)
Followed up with "Hackers: Evil and must be stopped?" to linking hacking to Obama, a danger to your kids and finally Hackers gone wild at Spring break.
Re:Linux Ver Security hole, fox stupidity, or both (Score:4, Funny)
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:5, Funny)
Great - now I have to go change all my passwords.
Re:Wasted chance (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great all we need. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:1, Funny)
My account passwords are nothing like that and my root passwords are > 24 chars.
At the very least create a random string of 4-8 chars and use it as a (pre|post)-fix to your standard passwords.
Here's some for the lazy...
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:5, Funny)
A system that I was managing once started crashing, and further investigation revealed that the password of an upstream system had been changed. When we contacted the admin team of the offending application, they informed us that they had upgraded the password from 123 to the "highly secure" (in their words) 234.
This is the closest Fox News will ever get... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wasted chance (Score:2, Funny)
Oh sure. Let's shed all our defenses and leave ourselves vulnerable to an attack by Canadia. That would be a good idea. I say we nuke Ontario now, just to be on the safe side.
Re:Wasted chance (Score:5, Funny)
Now, is that "ton is of free publicity", or does Mr. Ton have a lot of "of free publicity" that he could potentially give to you?
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:5, Funny)
>Great - now I have to go change all my passwords.
Don't feel bad, I had the same combination on my luggage.
so much for that blog (Score:2, Funny)
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)"
We have meltdown - I repeat we have meltdown. Now someone get that pile of circuts and goo off the rack and get a new one in here pronto.
Re:Employee information leaked (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wasted chance (Score:3, Funny)
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry about it. I just did it for you.
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dick Cheney has mod-points?!?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:what's wrong with T1me Out (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wasted chance (Score:1, Funny)