Monthly Archives: December 2010

There’s a great write-up on Forbes about the recent Gawker 0wnge, let’s see, they were using 3 year old linux kernels, DES for password encryption, apparently no auditing of what users were using for their passwords since, “1,958 Gawker users’ password was ‘password’.“, and that’s not even all of the problems. The fun part is this covers accounts, emails and passwords for a slew of other sites that Gawker host such as ifehacker.com, kotaku.com, and gizmodo.com – which by estimates could be millions of accounts. The fact is many people use the same username and password combo for more than one site, so this has far reaching implications of future problems as those connections are sniffed out. From the sound of things this was not a one time problem, this was an ongoing issue, “The evidence also suggests the attackers have had access to Gawker’s internal systems for a period of time that is at least a month, and that they gained root level access to servers the Gawker Media web properties are hosted on.” Ugg, so for my response I made my own (lam3) meme here: