[TYPO3-english] TYPO3.ORG hacked

[Luc Muller]

This is quite a good news for all of our instances of Typo3 running over 
the world.

We'll I should have named my topic in another way.

But this was the way I've understood it from themail I received.

Luc

Patrick Gaumond a écrit :
> If there's one thing that news.typo3.org and FAQ can do is make it 
> very evident that the site WASN'T hacked but that there was an intrusion.
>
> Hacking would mean the software (TYPO3, it's settings, server or 
> Apache) was the problem while "Intrusion" means that social 
> engineering was probably involved. Weak password being mainly a human 
> factor even if you can force heavier passwords.
>
> May I suggest reading : 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(computer_security)
>
>
> Patrick


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