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Grindr Hacked By Evil Aussie! Your D!@# Pics May Soon Hit The Internet
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:44:53 -0600 (CST)
http://www.queerty.com/grindr-hacked-by-evil-aussie-your-dick-pics-may-soon-hit-the-internet-20120120/ Grindr Hacked By Evil Aussie! Your D!@# Pics May Soon Hit The Internet By: Evan Mulvihill On: Jan 20, 2012 Rutrow! Gay hookup app Grindr has been compromised by a hacker based in Sydney, Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The hacker found a frighteningly easy way to log in as a user other than yourself, impersonate them, and steal any and all revealing pictures that had been exchanged in "romancing" sessions. Now Grindr CEO Joel Simkhai and his underlings are scrambling to put out a patch that blocks the security loophole. "We are certainly aware of a lot of these vulnerabilities and they will be fixed as fast as humanly possible," he said. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Small, inexpensive USB drives pose huge threats to organizations left unprotected. Download Chapter 1 of CREDANT Technologies eBook Data Protection to the Rescue http://www.credant.com/campaigns/external_media_ebook/chapter1/lp/
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