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Twitter XSS Worm writer Mikeey gets hacked
- rudyfink 18y agoWow. Street justice does not fool around.
- behe 18y agoThose are some pretty damn good passwords, too. Just goes to show a good password doesn't mean everything.
- dchest 18y agoSummary: he stored all his passwords (for servers, Gmail, Skype, AIM, etc.) in allinfo.txt on his web server.
- henning 18y agoWas it because his passwords were so long and complicated that he couldn't remember them? Irony.
- csomar 18y agothis happen with me sometimes, i think that no one will think of this file to open or think of its content. Two mistakes he made 1- the file name is easy to guess 2- he allowed file listening in his server
- dryicerx 18y agoI asked the guy who did this what the entry point was, The file name was not guessed, it was a shell command injection on the website, doing a ls listed an interestingly named file "allinfo.txt". Looking at this, it had the ssh username/password...
- jerryji 18y agoCool, that's why it's called HACKER news here :)
- cliffy 18y agoYou'd think that a self-professed hacker would know about password safes.
- bcl 18y agoWell, there is no way to confirm if the post is really true. Put it sure is funny as hell. Advice to mike, read up on a little project called Gnu Privacy Guard.
- Sephr 18y agoSame issue here. I have a ton of my usernames and passwords for services, but I can't confirm if they are true. I wonder what I should do? Oh yeah, it's called logging on with them.
- jonursenbach 18y agoKarma's a bitch, isn't it?