MT / OA Archived John Mcafee blames Ashley Madison hack on a bitter disgruntled woman employee (ibtimes.co.uk)
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MT / OA Archived John Mcafee blames Ashley Madison hack on a bitter disgruntled woman employee (ibtimes.co.uk)
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[–] TravelGuy 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
He wasn't saying the hackers don't know how to use mysql. He was saying that they rarely know the target technology.
[–] Tecktonik 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
That in itself is a dubious notion - that the tools and skills hackers use to hack are unrelated to "target technology". But then how would they even know what data to steal, since they are ignorant of how website technology works? Could they not, maybe, perhaps, learn about these things? Knowing how a website is put together isn't exactly a secret anymore.
[–] stradian ago
There are two predominant web stack solutions: Microsoft's web services on Windows Server with Access, and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php). Chances are its most likely MySQL, then Access, then a text document...