GoDaddy Update: "We Were not Hacked". e.g. simple stupidity

[cbelt3]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-5751043...s-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'

[Paul F.]

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".

[Acer]

Shoulda gone with the $35 Monster cable. Fools.

[Black]

i.e.

[M A V I C]

Looks like they missed the elephant in the room.

Or maybe they shot it...

[mikebw]

M A V I C wrote:
Looks like they missed the elephant in the room.

Or maybe they shot it...

+1

[DRR]

To their credit, they admitted it was their own fault instead of just blaming someone else.

[rjmacs]

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.

[fauch]

The gerbil died...