http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3074329a28,00.html By MARY ANNE GILL 23 October 2004 The hacker who got into Hamilton food company Aria Farm's website knew the password. Web host Ultimate Design of Hamilton says logs they produced a day after hackers got in to send out 3000 hoax emails saying Aria Farm's product was contaminated, clearly show an IP address and time the hacking took place. Systems engineer Chris Cunningham would not say when it was done other than it was last Saturday and it took the hacker very little time. The password was a default one, he said. IP addresses are a 32-bit numeric address written as four sets of numbers separated by periods. When you connect to the internet, you are assigned an IP address. This identifies your computer from others on the internet. The Waikato Times understands police now have a copy of that log and can identify where and who logged onto the site. Routers are needed to run computer systems on broadband. Most came from the factory with default passwords which are often never changed. Earlier this year Dennis Jones from Computer Troubleshooters in Te Rapa estimated that 95 per cent of Hamilton routers were still sitting on their default passwords. _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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