The Guardian has the lowdown on how LulzSec’s primetime hack of the UK Sun went down. It happened in two phases: one was discovering an exploit in the “contact us” section. The other was the discovery of a retired server.
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira made a mistake, a wonderful mistake. For over a year, he accidentally ran a cron task that captured a screenshot of the New York Times‘ front page twice an hour, 24 hours a day.
The fruits of today’s The Sun hack are starting to dangle down: LulzSec (out of retirement?) and Anon are tweeting logins of some serious British media brass. Foremost? Rebekah Brooks, the epicentre of England’s voicemail hacking scandal. Update: phone numbers!
As it was promised, so it has been given: those who (totally inexplicably) subscribe to the New York Times on their Kindles now have carte blanche access to the Grey Lady’s website. Congratulations! Although honestly why weren’t you just doing this the whole time?
If you’ve been looking for work in the Washington Post‘s Jobs section, you might have one more thing to worry about. User IDs and email addresses for 1.2 million accounts were compromised on June 27th and 28th. No passwords or other personal information was accessed.
If you’re annoyed by the New York Times’ stupid paywall, here’s the secret trick to destroy it and read as many articles as you want. As this video shows, it only takes three seconds.
