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000Webhost has 000 Security – Daily Security Byte EP. 169

November 2, 2015 By Corey Nachreiner

A popular hosting company suffered a network breach and lost over 13M user records. Not only did the company not know about the breach until five months later, the stolen records included clear text passwords. Watch today’s video to see what you can learn from this web hoster’s mistakes; of which they made many.

(Episode Runtime: 2:23)

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnyVCV3spA

EPISODE REFERENCES:

  • 13M+ password leaked from popular web hosting company – Forbes
  • Original blog disclosing the 000webhost breach – Troy Hunt
  • 000Webhost’s breach due to outdated PHP – Computer Weekly

— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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