The New York Times has more that it exposed the security details on the iPad security vulnerability on the breach that led to the arrest company’s site to alert it to of two men yesterday. Andrew the problem. The flaw allowed Auernheimer, of Fayetteville, anyone to discover e-mail and another man were charged addresses by submitting with fraud and conspiracy to potential iPad identification access a computer without numbers to the site. The authorization. The men were group’s post said that “all part of a group called Goatse data was gathered from a Security that found a weak public Web server with no spot in AT&T's website that password, accessible by allowed them to gain access anyone on the Internet."... to personal information from Richard Wang, manager of the over 100,000 iPad users. security firm SophosLabs in The Goatse Security group the United States, said there informed AT&T back in June was “criticism to be leveled that there was a security at both sides” in the case. flaw that allowed anybody “AT&T’s site wasn’t with a web connection to get sufficiently secure,” Mr. those passwords, no hacking Wang said. The company may required. Instead of giving have felt pressure to take them a medal, they got busted. strong action, he said, The Goatse Security group considering the data leak originally maintained, in an involved a prominent business open letter to AT&T in June, partner.
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