QWERTY or QWERT?
Hackers have deleted data from the IHG hotel chain for shitz 'n' gigglz. When the vulnerability was traced to the use of a weak password and lax security around the company's password vault, IHG blew smoke.
An IHG spokeswoman disputed that the password vault details were not secure, saying that the attacker had to evade "multiple layers of security", but would not give details about the extra security "IHG employs a defence-in-depth strategy to information security that leverages many modern security solutions," she added.
Joe Tidy, cyber reporter, BBC News
Whatever. They still got fucking pwned anyway. (pipe)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5...ummm...?
I'm assuming that a cyber reporter
is someone who reports on computing matters, rather than a reporter that's actually a robot, for example. Thinking about it, a robot would be able to count beyond five.
Presumably, our correspondent can only count on the fingers of the hand that he's not typing with.
But, while awaiting the inevitable stealth edit, I'm left wondering whether the first five six characters of this particular password are QWERTY
; Qwerty
, as Joe reports; or qwerty
, which has got to be easier for the dunderheads who use it. Because passwords are case-sensitive, init() Joe?
Normally I'd ask innit Joe?
But Joe's a cyber dude, so I thought he'd appreciate the nod: init() is commonly used in coding circles to represent an initialising function. (nerd)
Fixed! And no one need be any the wiser. (wink)
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