• Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    In a post, the security firm said the username and “ridiculously weak” password were harvested by information-stealing malware that had been installed on an Orange computer since September.

    So the password being weak was actually irrelevant here, even if it was 32 random characters they would have pulled it off that pc.

  • cosmic_slate@dmv.social
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    6 months ago

    This title is completely incorrect. The text of the article clearly states it’s Orange’s RIPE account, not RIPE itself.

  • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.

    What’s a ”BGP expert”? Most of this stuff is covered in an undergraduate networking course. Wouldn’t just “networking expert” do?