[LINK] big pong email system breached

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Sun Dec 11 14:20:11 AEDT 2011


On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 07:24 +1100, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> The SMH had it Friday afternoon:
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/telstra-customer-database-exposed-20111209-1on60.html
> 
> This was followed up by the Oz, also on Friday afternoon. Other outlets 
> (including yours truly on The Register) ran it on Saturday morning (I 
> was travelling on Friday; can't be everywhere).
> 

Thanks, I do not read SMH, and have not read the Oz in a while, I do
tend to avoid most things Murdoch. As for the Register, well, I rely on
the daily emails for content to catch my eye, but last received daily
from them was on Friday at 6am (hence why I missed your story, but
reading it now :)

-added: I also don't usually go onto whingepool (as mentioned in your
story) because its full mostly of, well, whingers.

"it’s a cloud-based service on the custhelp.com domain operated by
RightNow Technologies"   and this is more of the constant examples we
are seeing as to why the Cloud is insecure and should be avoided.


However, there was no mention on radio or TV, so were they trying to
keep it quiet - after all, every mum and dad, nan and pop, reads the SMH
and Oz dont they so no need to put it on mass media like radio and TV
<insert evil sarcastic grin>


> The Yahoo headline is a little misleading; it wasn't a "breach", in the 
> sense of a hacker penetrating through the site's security. It was a 
> stuff-up that left customer information available without security.
> 

*shakes head*

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