In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 18:00:33 on
Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> writes
>An investigation by Scotland's Sunday Herald newspaper has discovered
>that late on Thursday night a previously unknown Indian hacker
>successfully breached the IT defences of UK's Best Western Hotel
>group's online booking system and sold details of how to access it
>through an underground network operated by the Russian mafia.
It makes you wonder why they bothered, because if it's all based on
obtaining a username and password from a hotel clerk [creating a window
into their whole booking system], then surely that can be much easier
obtained by bribery.
--
Roland Perry
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