Security News > 2011 > March > Teenage hackers shut down a PHP cloud hosting firm

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2036653/teenage-hackers-shut-php-cloud-hosting-firm By Asavin Wattanajantra The Inquirer March 23, 2011 A COUPLE of 16-year old hackers had their wicked way exploiting a security vulnerability recently that allowed one of them to steal and publish a PHP cloud hosting firm's proprietary source code on Twitter. On his company's blog, PHP Fog founder and CEO Lucas Carlson described how an Australian called 'Eliot' and an American called 'John' embarked on a competition to see who could deface Carlson's website the fastest. Carlson said that 'John' gave instructions to 'Eliot' to break into PHP Fog's shared hosting environment. The PHP Fog boss admitted he made it easy when he "unfortunately and stupidly" had an old copy of the company's code on the server that had PHP Fog's system passwords on it, which it had not deleted or changed. Oops. 'Eliot' posted the old codebase, PHP Fog's intellectual property, on Twitter. That must have been a lot of 140 character messages! [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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