Posts by jonoMan 3 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Dec 2015
Average computer users do not see or notice extra icons in their system tray. Nor do they notice flashing icons on their task bar.
This is only coming from someone who has updated over 50 PC's to windows 10 for people who had no idea that they could upgrade for free because they did not see the notifications.
"Yet all of these products and services – and thousands more - are the result of the creativity, hard work and financial investment of vast numbers of people"
All these services are more than paying for themselves through advertising. No one runs services as extensive as those listed above and runs them for no profit.
Hackers don't care if they should not go further, so why should pen testers.If a pen tester gains higher level privileges and they do not mess with or alter anything and report what they have done and how they did it then they should be rewarded. Just because the flaw was not software or code based does not remove the fact that it was a flaw, and a massive flaw at that.
I for one am glad that he found this flaw and informed facebook. How many other people found the "keys to the Kingdom" as I've heard this hack call in other articles.
It seems like a very lax approach to security to allow staff to have weak passwords set for any account or service on their domain. Have these staff members been fired, or at least reprimanded ?
A hacker is not going to sit there and be like "O look i cracked these weak passwords, but I better not go any further"
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