Hackers Claim $10K Prize For StrongWebmail Breakin 193
alphadogg writes "Telesign, a provider of voice-based authentication software, challenged hackers to break into its StrongWebmail.com Web site late last week. The prize: $10,000. On Thursday, a group of security researchers claimed to have won the contest, which challenged hackers to break into the Web mail account of StrongWebmail CEO Darren Berkovitz and report back details from his June 26 calendar entry. The hackers, led by Secure Science Chief Scientist Lance James and security researchers Aviv Raff and Mike Bailey, provided details from Berkovitz's calendar to IDG News Service. In an interview, Berkovitz confirmed those details were from his account. However, Berkovitz could not confirm that the hackers had actually won the prize. He said he would need to check to confirm that the hackers had abided by the contest rules, adding, 'if someone did it, we'll kind of put our heads down.'"
Re:Hu? (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm thinking - if the hackers actually bribed/tricked the CEO's PA into just telling them what what in the calendar record then the guy is going to try to weasel out of paying.
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Re:Hu? (Score:5, Interesting)
Uh? According to NetworkWorld, "the IDG attack did not work initially, but succeeded when security software called NoScript was disabled on the Firefox browser, running on a Windows XP machine." wtf?
Re:Hu? (Score:5, Interesting)
The hell it doesn't! If hackers can pay the janitor or other employee a few bucks to access the CEO's email then I wanna know that before I hand StrongWebmail $$$ to handle my email.
That depends on what they are providing. If they are providing a hosting service of some sort, then bribing a janitor counts. If they are providing a system to be handled by the local network admins (that's the impression I get), then it shouldn't. The janitors there are not the janitors that will be around the customers servers.
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