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Hacker Cracks Macworld Website to Get VIP Passes
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:16:53 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via C|Net News. [snip] Alongside the VIPs and people who paid top dollar, a hacker claims he also got priority access to Steve Jobs' speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo this week. A security weakness in the event's Web site allowed enterprising hackers to get free "platinum passes" to the event, a $1,695 value, a security professional claims. These passes--the most expensive sold for Macworld--included much-coveted priority seating for the Jobs keynote address on Tuesday. In that packed speech, Jobs unveiled Apple's new iPhone. The hack was possible because special discount codes were available on the Macworld site without proper security, Kurt Grutzmacher, a Berkeley, Calif.-based security professional, wrote on his blog late Thursday. It was relatively easy to uncover the code that would make a platinum pass free, he wrote. [snip] More: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6149994.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFp/rBq1pz9mNUZTMRAhv0AKC4eGNjhzb7r7+UWX2ihzF12o5zRwCgpTc6 TeKa4diT9MRVXwVkNefEEyU= =AoSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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