Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised 256
sl4shd0rk writes "Adobe Systems Inc. is expected to announce today that hackers broke into its network and stole source code for an as-yet undetermined number of software titles, including its ColdFusion Web application platform, and possibly its Acrobat family of products. The company said hackers also accessed nearly three million customer credit card records, and stole login data for an undetermined number of Adobe user accounts."
Re:See... this is why I torrent cracked versions. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Couldn't have happened... (Score:4, Informative)
Adobe have been pushing software rental for the last couple of years. This involves recurrent payments. Recurrent payments require the vendor to store credit card details, or outsource the payment processing to a third party who stores the details.
Either way, if you're renting software your credit card details are being stored.
Re:See... this is why I torrent cracked versions. (Score:5, Informative)
In related news, it turns out Adobe will give you some sort of software if you give them a credit card number. What a crazy business model!
Not for long... their new business model is that they will let you have access to their cloud if you give them a credit card number, and keep paying them regularly.
Re:Nothing to worry about (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Dayamn! Thjs is big! (Score:3, Informative)
Open source programs have their code exposed to everyone, including those with malicious intent, and are therefor "battle hardened" for security.
While this would the expected situation, the evidence demonstrates that it isn't.
http://www.zdnet.com/six-open-source-security-myths-debunked-and-eight-real-challenges-to-consider-7000014225/ [zdnet.com]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/does_open_source_software_enhance/ [theregister.co.uk]
etc..
You can search this on your own. The general consensus is that the "many eyes" theory is flawed, and outside a few exceptions where a particular product has been security hardened beyond usual standards, most experts agree open source software in general tends to be no more or less secure than proprietary software. On the flip-side however, it is true that when the source code for a closed-source product does get compromised, we do generally get a new flood of exploits.
Virtual Credit Card Numbers (Score:5, Informative)