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George Orr · 2012-06-03 11:16:05

Sabu started scanning HBGaryFederal.com for a hole. It turned out Barr’s [security] site ran on a publishing system created by a third-party developer, which had a major bug...
Unbelievably for a cyber security specialist investigating the highly volatile Anonymous, Barr had used the same easy-to-crack password on almost all his Web accounts, including Twitter, Yahoo!, Flickr, Facebook, even World of Warcraft.

fnord · 2012-06-05 06:12:48

Somebody removed the spammer post while I was banning the spammer. In the future, please leave the post but fuck the post up, post a ban hammer pic, and of course ban the spammer. It's more amusing that way.

Dmtdust · 2012-06-09 18:48:37

Hai George!

WilberCuntLicker · 2012-06-09 20:33:55

Good read...and VERY amusing. Anonymous is one of the few groups extant that gives me any hope for humanity.

GooberMcNutly · 2012-06-11 08:36:13

Georgie, that was a great article. Thanks for the link. Now I'm off to go change all of my passwords and then spend the rest of the day hiding in the closet.

I still wonder which CMS they had hacked so easily. They never did name it. I deliver CMS solutions to my clients so I am curious on a professional level.

choad · 2012-06-11 10:29:23

GooberMcNutly wrote:
Georgie, that was a great article. Thanks for the link. Now I'm off to go change all of my passwords and then spend the rest of the day hiding in the closet.

I still wonder which CMS they had hacked so easily. They never did name it. I deliver CMS solutions to my clients so I am curious on a professional level.

~ clicky;-) ~

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GooberMcNutly · 2012-06-11 16:57:30

Thanks, but that was not very helpful.

ARSTechnica wrote:
HBGary Federal's website, hbgaryfederal.com, was powered by a content management system (CMS). CMSes are a common component of content-driven sites; they make it easy to add and update content to the site without having to mess about with HTML and making sure everything gets linked up and so on and so forth. Rather than using an off-the-shelf CMS (of which there are many, used in the many blogs and news sites that exist on the Web), HBGary—for reasons best known to its staff—decided to commission a custom CMS system from a third-party developer.

Dumbass. Even I don't let my clients convince me to write that kind of stuff myself. I usually spend my day convincing them that they DON'T want a custom written CMS.