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Gawker Media, leakage accounts, and technical perception

One thing that a lot of questions is, why the community of hackers who call themselves Gnosis attack the Gawker site? Not many other sites that store sensitive data. This is a piece of the outpouring of the heart of the hacker.

In July 2010, Gawker claims to have obtained a denial-of-service of the hacker group that called themselves 4chan. Although not successful Gawker sites crippling enough to disrupt the attack but their site operations.

Gawker’s Media successfully hacked by the Gnosis. Approximately 1.25 million accounts, including 500 000 185 000 email accounts and passwords are uploaded on Pirate Bay. There have been many headlines about this story, but rarely analyze Gnosis method of doing dump passwords from Gawker Media website.

How can I test whether your email account information leak?

Testing your email account information leakage

1. Perform MD5 encryption in your email
+ Http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php
+ Enter your email address, for example: r3cyclebin@yahoo.com
+ Click the MD5> You will get the MD5 value
+ For example you can get: 1da28ba3aa1cb1d5fb1cede0527dfab3
+ Right click and Copy

2. Open fusion table
+ Http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662
+ Click on Show Options> select MD5
+ Enter MD5 value that you have learned in step 1
If listed there, mail your account information has been leaked.

Can also output Slate widgets and this DidIGetGawkered
+ Http://www.slate.com/id/2277768/
+ Http://www.didigetgawkered.com/

Analysis of techniques used Gnosis:

http://www.duosecurity.com/blog/entry/brief_analysis_of_the_gawker_password_dump

With Google Reader,, maybe you can successfully get the password that is already didump Gnosis and published in PirateBay.org via torrent

Access:

http://thepiratebay.org/search/gawker/0/99/0

Torrent:

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/6036819/Gawker_Sites_Hacked_Databases___More.6036819.TPB.torrent

So for those of you who had medaftarkan themselves in a large family site Gawkermedia highly recommended to change the password used, including passwords Facebook or Twitter. Because the perpetrator also claims managed to steal user accounts that use the Facebook Connect

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