Lawsuit says Clorox hackers got passwords simply by asking (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

jee.. is that easy? what's your password OP?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

hunter2, but don't tell anyone because it's a secret.

[-] milkisklim@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

All I see is ******2

[-] Apollo98@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago

Ahh, I’m home finally

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

RIP bash.org

EDIT: Nice, there's a bunch of mirrors.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 10 months ago

Weird, because all I see is hunter*

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 months ago

Yup, it is. Social engineering is by far the most effective means of gaining unlawful access to any system.

Humans are always the weakest link.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Many breaches follow this pattern:

Learn the name and some basic details about the secretary or something
Call corporate tech support asking for a password reset claiming to be the secretary
Access important stuff since secretaries have a surprising amount of access

Replace "secretary" with some other relevant individual who has a surprising amount of access and wouldn't attract attention.

[-] limer@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

correcthorsebatterystaple

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

Hunter2

[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Hi, I'm Steve from corp. I need your password to verify some settings....

[-] svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

At least it wasn't due to a user input sanitization issue

[-] example@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

instead it was a user sanitization issue

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