WIRED Had a Potential Infosecurity Problem. Here’s What We Did About It
WIRED Had a Potential Infosecurity Problem. Here’s What We Did About It
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 17, 20176m 55s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dovetail.prxu.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
On February 26th, WIRED's security reporter Andy Greenberg received an email from Sophia Tupolev, the head of communications at the security firm Beame.io, saying she'd found a security issue on WIRED.com. Tupolev's company had discovered sensitive data in the source code on many pages on our site, including obfuscated, "hashed" passwords and email addresses for current and former WIRED writers. We corrected the problem right away.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices