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London hotel put admin login for booking website on whiteboard behind the front desk

Avram Piltch
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London hotel put admin login for booking website on whiteboard behind the front desk

Welcome, once again, to PWNED, where all the victims are self-owned. This week, we welcome you to a London hotel where you could check out its admin credentials for a booking website just by walking past the front desk.Our story comes courtesy of Neycho Tepavicharov, co-founder of Flashcloud, a Delaware-based web hosting company. He was staying at a hotel in London when he noticed a shocking breach of basic security protocols by management, who were a little too hospitable with their credentials.As he was passing through the lobby, Tepavicharov noticed that the door behind the front desk was open and, inside that back room, there was a whiteboard. On the whiteboard, written in plain English, were the hotel’s Booking.com administrative...

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