Monday, July 18th, 2011 05:43 pm
Russian mobile operator Megafon managed to make thousands of SMS sent from its website open to the Yandex web search engine, which promptly indexed them. Complete message texts, tied to the actual phone numbers. By the time Yandex cleared its cache, someone collected 997 messages and made a Google spreadsheet. All this because Megafon didn't put robots.txt file into directory with SMS texts...
Friday, February 26th, 2010 01:34 am
Tarren Mill (EU) server was lagging and crashing for several days. The reason of crashing were actions of one person.

This player discovered that spamming nacro

/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here
/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here
/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here
/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here
/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here
/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here
/cast Skill-Which-I-Won't-Name-Here

caused major lag and crashes to server. What would you do if you discovered such an exploit? I would report it to support team and never use it. This player decided to do exactly opposite. He spammed and spammed this macro, then told about it to several his friends (apparently <GameOver> guild) and they spammed it too. Birds of feather have flocked together?

In addition to being the assholes, these players also couldn't hold their tongues. Players of the Tarren Mill learned the name of mastermind behind the crashes. Athrigos.

Athrigos thought he was safe behind his avatar. He was wrong.

In less that 3 hours... )
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 06:32 pm
Say, someone was hacked and carelessly posted about this on forums. What kind of response will s/he receive?

Victim blaming, of course. "Lol, you were asking for it"
And, of course, "Buy authenticator, you fool".

And if s/he gets a blue answer, it will be "bla-bla-bla, and buy authenticator".

Read more... )

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