So they were little more than script kiddies after all

Open Access Now 2015-07-07

Summary:

The Hacking Team, a notoriously sleazy and unscrupulous gang of malware-spreading, privacy-violating goons, has been hacked. The irony is delicious. I’m pleased to see that perfectly appropriate comeuppance. Even more hilariously, their own passwords were exposed. The root passwords for Hacking Team’s servers were inexplicably weak for their purpose. One of the passwords was simply […]

Link:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/07/07/so-they-were-little-more-than-script-kiddies-after-all/

From feeds:

Gudgeon and gist » Pharyngula

Tags:

science

Authors:

PZ Myers

Date tagged:

07/07/2015, 22:01

Date published:

07/07/2015, 19:24