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Adobe's source code was parked on hackers' unprotected server |
October 11, 2013
Hackers capitalize on other people's mistakes. But they make their own as well.Case in point: A massive breach of Adobe Systems' network was discovered after the source code of numerous products, including the Web application development platform ColdFusion, sat parked on a hacker's unprotected Web server open to the Internet.The breach, which also encompassed 2.9 million encrypted customer credit card records, was announced by Adobe on Oct. 3. Adobe had already been investigating a breach when Alex Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security, independently found what turned out to be the company's source code on a hacking gang's server.Adobe's source code "was hidden, but it was not cleverly hidden," Holden said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054160/adobes-source-code-was-parked-on-hackers-unprotected-server.html#tk.rss_all
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