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New York Times Internal Network Hacked
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-02-26

How open proxies and default passwords led to Adrian Lamo padding his rolodex with information on 3,000 op-ed writers, from William F. Buckley Jr. to Jimmy Carter.

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New York Times Internal Network Hacked 2002-02-28
Anonymous
Just a brief comment.

"Lamo notified the Times of the vulnerabilities Tuesday through a reporter, and provided them with a list of the open proxies."

Why does this humble servant of all that is good and super “whitehat” hacker involve a reporter before talking to the NY Times? Is h...

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