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Hacker Hits Adobe

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A hacker has reported to have hacked Abode, and now has access to 150k of data from both Clients and Employees. From reading the article sounds to me he is trying to teach these big and lazy companies a lesson.

Password security is only as good as the weakest link. And on Wednesday, that weak link appeared to be Adobe Systems.

A hacker who said he was Egyptian posted a message on Pastebin with links to hundreds of records that he said belonged to Adobe employees and users of the company’s software, including employees of Google, NASA and the United States military, as well as academic institutions. The hacker claimed to have pilfered the records from an Adobe server which, he said, had records for some 150,000 Adobe employees and clients.

Adobe said in a blog post that it appeared that a discussion forum for users of its Adobe Connect conferencing software had been compromised. It said it had taken the forum offline and was resetting the passwords of its users.

The records posted by the hacker contain names, job titles, company affiliation, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords that have been jumbled — or what security researchers call “hashedâ€â€“ using an algorithm known as MD5, a widely used tool to produce unique digital fingerprints. But hashed passwords can be easily deciphered using readily available online services.

Some of the records appeared to be outdated. One record belongs to a person named Ben Tauber who is listed as a product manager at Adobe. A glance at Mr. Tauber’s LinkedIn profile, however, shows that he left Adobe in 2010 and now works at Google.

The hacker claimed to have alerted Adobe about the breach and said he carried it out, in part, to expose the company’s slow response time. In a message alongside the data dump, he complained that it took the company five to seven days to respond to vulnerability reports and another three to four months to patch them.

“Such big companies should really respond very fast and fix the security issues as fast as they can,†he said.

The hacker warned that he was planning another data dump, this time for Yahoo.
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Original article can be found: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...er-virus-update_news_adobe-server-hacked.html
 
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Thanks for the headsup Maj. I actually use Yahoo, so I will be very interested to see how this turns out.
 
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Nice way to get the point across....i like it :D

Normally hackers can be annoying but i like hackers like these who give big company's the 1 fingered salute whenever they deserve it, aslong as no lasting damage is done and no card stuff is taken that is.
 
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No problems Zax. :thumbsup:

Generally a lot of hackers are actually decent guys, a lot of them generally only to hack to see if they can do it, improve their skills and so on. In fact a lot of hackers get employed by the governments and PC companies to develop methods to stop hackers, find security leaks and so forth. The best person to stop a hacker is generally another hacker.
 
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Yeah, the so called White Hat hackers or so ive heard. Like everything in the world, we have hackers who use their skills to test systems and work in security (White Hats) and those who just wanna tear the internet apart for the fun of it or grab as many cards as possible (Black hats).

Still, i like the way this guy did it. reminds me of what Lulzsec did (Gotta admit, their twitter was as funny as hell). Wonder how long it'll take Adobe to fix that flaw now :rolleyes:
 
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Paul said:
Wonder how long it'll take Adobe to fix that flaw now :rolleyes:
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Well if we go by the news article:

The hacker claimed to have alerted Adobe about the breach and said he carried it out, in part, to expose the company’s slow response time. In a message alongside the data dump, he complained that it took the company five to seven days to respond to vulnerability reports and another three to four months to patch them.
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Oh lets give them a few months, can't rush them. :lol2:
 
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