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September 06, 2007

Fox News Gaffe Revealed Personal Data

Here's a scary story about how an unsecured FTP server was recently compromised at Fox News.

"As many as 1.5 million email addresses may have been revealed to visitors arriving at an unsecured FTP server courtesy of a login left available by an error on the Fox News website."

Scary stuff indeed!

The morale of the story: Always secure your files and data by making sure to use strong (and private) passwords and always require file transfers to occur over encrypted SSL & SSL protocols. There are many other security precautions that can be taken, but at a minimum those two precautions are a smart start to ensuring the confidentiality of your files and data.

Posted by Hugh Garber at September 6, 2007 06:37 AM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page

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