Adobe to hire security auditor to prevent repeat of password SNAFU

Australia's privacy commissioner says basic mistakes at Adobe allowed hackers to ransack its customer database in 2013, and reveals that the company plans to appoint auditors to make sure it won't experience a repeat of the breach. Timothy Pilgrim, holder of the privacy commissioner's office, yesterday released a report [PDF] …

[ratfox]

> Adobe

> Security Audit

Mmmpf… pffrft… BWAAA HAA HAA HAAA

[Anonymous Coward]

Given that it's Adobe

I was pleasantly surprised that the passwords weren't stored in plaintext

[Captain DaFt]

Well, cool.

So a company that's worth billions has finally condescended to spend a few grand to look for security holes two years after a publicly embarrassing breach. Color me me impressed.

Caveat: The above post may contain traces of sarcasm.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Well, cool.

No, they're hiring someone to finger all the people that need to be arrested for identifying gaping holes in the warez of an ORG that is still alive despite being completely inept at writing a decent app. WHY THE FUCK IS JS EMBEDDED IN PDFs ..... lame fucking marketers, that's why.

FUCK ADOBE!

[PassiveSmoking]

The first thing that should go in the audit...

... is the fact that Adobe took 2 years from a major breach to perform an audit.