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Title: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: KnacK on July 15, 2008, 09:44:12 AM

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/14/BAOS11P1M5.DTL

can you say "pwned"?

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: Spook on July 15, 2008, 04:12:44 PM

He made good money. I wonder if they are hiring the best hackers they have to get their network back.

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: Zorchenhimer on July 26, 2008, 08:00:41 PM

Haha, update:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10000342-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

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Later in the week, the DA's office reportedly filed a court document to argue against a reduction of the $5 million bail set for Childs, who is being held in the county jail. Exhibit A of the document contained the usernames and passwords used by nearly 150 employees to get into the city's virtual private network. And despite saying the passwords pose an "imminent threat" to the city's computer network, they are now of public record.

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: KnacK on July 26, 2008, 08:06:19 PM

What a bunch of idiots

I saw that. Apparently they had different login credentials for vpn then their domain login which saved their a$$'$

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: eradicator on July 27, 2008, 12:38:52 AM

what exactly does BOFH stand for?

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: ViciouZ on July 27, 2008, 07:04:18 AM

Bastard Operator From Hell

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: KnacK on July 27, 2008, 08:52:07 AM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/

Title: Re: Never piss off a BOFH.....
Post by: eradicator on July 27, 2008, 12:40:15 PM

ohhh ok.