 | A Web user looking through FoxNews.com on July 23 discovered that the site had left a user name and password wide open in a public area. The password was then posted on Slashdot, the giant news-for-geeks service.Insider tips, how-tos, best security practices, and more
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Bonus: get this free download when you subscribe We guarantee your privacy: We will never sell, rent, or give away your address to any outside party, ever. We will never send you any unrequested e-mail. Unsubscribe requests are honored within one business day. Privacy Policy According to WikiNews, people who used the password could have downloaded consumers’ e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, corporate expense sheets, résumés, and data relating to Ziff-Davis, the company that owns the server and collaborates with Fox in covering technology news. Later that day, the site changed the password — but not before a directory of “teaser” images that Fox News had developed was downloaded by the merry pranksters at the Fark.com humor site. The folks at Fark documented Fox News’s most sensationalistic graphics — such as the cable network’s obsession with Paris Hilton’s recent jail sentence (photo, left) — and provided new, and far better, captions. Check out their handiwork at the Fark forum. (Caution: some naughty language.) |
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