From foundation-l about vulnerable password and its
danger;
I expect most of us have much stronger password, but it is worthy to note
...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2007 4:34 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Passwords
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[also sent to wikipedia-l]
For those who haven't yet heard, someone has been hitting en.wikipedia
with what appears to be an attack looking for admins with weak
passwords - "password", "password1", "[username]", etc. Then
they go
on a predictable spree; deleting the main page, mostly. I think we're
down four so far...
It's possible someone might try this in the near future on other wikis
- a lot of vandals tend to only go for en, but you never know, this
one might be feeling multicultural!
This might be a good time to spread the word and ask your admins to
consider checking their passwords are good and secure - after all,
it's good practice anyway.
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