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GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - cbelt3 - 09-11-2012
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57510432-83/go-daddy-says-it-was-not-hacked-offers-apology/
"The service outage was not caused by external influences," the company's interim CEO, Scott Wagner, said in a statement. "It was not a "hack" and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)."
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I always liked the quote:
"Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained as simple stupidity'
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - Paul F. - 09-11-2012
I like a story one of my coworkers tells about his buddy who works cyber-security for a "large credit card company"...
They had an outage that literally got him on a hastily rented corporate jet at 2am to fly out to the data center...
To find a fifty cent bad ethernet cable had taken down the $30 million data center.
And yes, they should have had a redundant connection to take the load when the fifty cent cable failed...
Apparently, that was a part of the "lesson learned".
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - Acer - 09-11-2012
Shoulda gone with the $35 Monster cable. Fools.
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - Black - 09-11-2012
i.e.
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - M A V I C - 09-11-2012
Looks like they missed the elephant in the room.
Or maybe they shot it...
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - mikebw - 09-11-2012
M A V I C wrote:
Looks like they missed the elephant in the room.
Or maybe they shot it...
+1
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - DRR - 09-11-2012
To their credit, they admitted it was their own fault instead of just blaming someone else.
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - rjmacs - 09-11-2012
DRR wrote:
To their credit, they admitted it was their own fault instead of just blaming someone else.
Calculated decision. You can remedy an internal failure. You can't remedy Anonymous.
Re: GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity - fauch - 09-11-2012
The gerbil died...