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A poker forum was recently hacked, and the owner writes about how it happened in his site. It’s an interesting story, where he communicated with the hacker (apparently Russian) and figured out the step by step procedure the hacker had taken to gain access to his system. The entry point for the hacker was the installation files of the chatroom software that he didn’t remove after the installation and were accessible to anyone. This incident is a useful reminder to us that we shouldn’t take security for granted and leave the installation files/scripts on the server that are accessible to whole world.

via: Digg