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June 5, 2012 02:58 am GMT
CloudFlare, the increasingly popular security and CDN service, suffered a security breach last week that allowed hacktivist group UGNazitohijack the company's CEO's Matthew Prince's Gmail account and gain access to the account of one of CloudFlare's customers. CloudFlare won't say who exactly the hacker targeted with this attack, but rumor has it that 4chan.org was likely on the hacker's hit list. Now, after investigation the problem over the weekend, CloudFlare is releasing more information about how this could have happened. As Prince told me earlier today, the attack was the result of flaws in AT&T's, Google's and CloudFlare's security protocols. The hacker smartly exploited all of these to gain access to the CloudFlare user's account.
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CloudFlare Security Breach: The Result Of Smart Social Engineering, Flaw In Googles Account Recovery System
CloudFlare, the increasingly popular security and CDN service, suffered a security breach last week that allowed hacktivist group UGNazitohijack the company's CEO's Matthew Prince's Gmail account and gain access to the account of one of CloudFlare's customers. CloudFlare won't say who exactly the hacker targeted with this attack, but rumor has it that 4chan.org was likely on the hacker's hit list. Now, after investigation the problem over the weekend, CloudFlare is releasing more information about how this could have happened. As Prince told me earlier today, the attack was the result of flaws in AT&T's, Google's and CloudFlare's security protocols. The hacker smartly exploited all of these to gain access to the CloudFlare user's account.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/SRBDKjS9abo/
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