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Hundreds of Godaddy accounts compromised and they still don't know how!
Hundreds of Go Daddy-hosted sites compromised | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
Wednesday, Go Daddy's Security Team detected that approximately 445 hosting accounts were compromised," said Todd Redfoot, chief information security officer at Go Daddy. "The accounts were accessed by using the account holder's username and password."Redfoot said he didn't know exactly how the intruder obtained the usernames and passwords, but he said it was most likely malware such as keyloggers or possibly phishing. There did not appear to be a trend in the types of sites compromised, he said.
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CodeBlox
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Hmmm my sister was just asking me suggestions about hosting and I was suggesting to her godaddy. Maybe I should continue looking
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UnixGuy
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I use GoDaddy for the site in my signature too, they said they fixed it. Way too many popular companies hacked this year !Hmmm my sister was just asking me suggestions about hosting and I was suggesting to her godaddy. Maybe I should continue looking -
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Chivalry1
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Seems they need to invest more into data security in less into the sexy Super Bowl commercials."The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and
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KrisA
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But they look sooo hot! Once it is disclosed how it happened, I am sure there isn't a lot they could have done...Seems they need to invest more into data security in less into the sexy Super Bowl commercials.
Now, with 5 million accounts, 445 accounts is 0.000089%... that is not much at all... But being that number is so low, I am really curious as to how it happened.WGU Progress BSIT:NA | Current Term:1 | Transfered To-Do In Progress Completed
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I only registered my domain names through GoDaddy, and use their DNS. -
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It is important to remember that GoDaddy cannot protect against the stupidity of its account holders. If you are irresponsible in web surfing and get malware, you are at risk with any account you use online. Malware is a big deal. Most of us know that. I suspect the people with the compromised accounts don't even know what malware is. If there was an issue with the security of GoDaddy, there would have been a much larger compromise that 445 accounts out of 5,000,000 (or whatever the actual number is). People got phished, keylogged, etc...I'm excited to hear the actual details in fact. -
Optionsidr0p
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Also GoDaddy actually also won an award from SC magazine for the best security team. It is not IF it is when you get compromised how you deal with it that matters.
