[mdlug] Ubuntu Forums hacked

[Mat Enders]

I believe the the soft spot was the OS.

"Security blog *Sucuri*<http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/07/ubuntu-forums-hacked.html>
suggest
that the hack may have been achieved due to lax protection on the backend."



On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net>wrote:

> <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/**2013/07/ubuntu-forum-hacked-**
> users-advised-to-change-**passwords<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/07/ubuntu-forum-hacked-users-advised-to-change-passwords>
> >
>
> Their forums use vBulletin, which uses MD5 to encrypt the passwords,
> so it might be easy to decrypt the 1.8 million stolen passwords.
>
> A lot of distro forums use vBulletin, so I hope this encourages a
> migration to better forum software, like Discourse.
>
> Michael
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