NATO is warning subscribers to its e-Bookshop service that hackers have likely stolen its customer database. The site is run as a separate service for distributing NATO information and does not contain any classified or secret information. The bookshop has been closed and all members been warned by email to change their …

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Friday 24th June 2011 14:57 GMT Maikol

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Great, so now that a bunch of 5 star-generals have had their IDs stolen whats the bet that those passwords have been used on the top-notch global nuclear ("nucular"?) launch platform web-interface with the drag & drop "Designate target" and pop-up "Are you sure you want to launch" button.

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1. Friday 24th June 2011 19:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Hope that was a joke
  
  cos if it aint you clearly have no idea about how nukes are actually handled/controlled
  
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  1. Saturday 25th June 2011 14:31 GMT Danny 14
    
    oh lord
    
    please tell me you are either german or have no plans on procreating?
    
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  2. Monday 27th June 2011 08:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    @ Hope that was a joke
    
    You know how nukes are actually handled/controlled?
    
    From what I read, there are people on stand by, in those missile silos, waiting for the president's orders.
    
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Friday 24th June 2011 15:01 GMT Thomas 4

Oh sweet zombie Jesus

I'm thinking of running a sweepstake for the next big company/organisation to announce that they've been hacked. Place your bets below, here's a few to get you started:

1) WIkipedia

2) Facebook

3) Sony

4) Sony

5) Xbox Live Arcade

6) Potterless

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1. Friday 24th June 2011 18:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  What title?
  
  Shouldn't ou have put some more Sony entiries in there?
  
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2. Monday 27th June 2011 12:40 GMT Tom 13
  
  And how exactly would you tell
  
  that Wikipedia had been hacked?
  
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  1. Tuesday 28th June 2011 10:06 GMT Sam Therapy
    
    Thank you.
    
    Put a smile on me face, that did.
    
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Friday 24th June 2011 15:26 GMT Anonymous Coward

"Meanwhile LulzSec released a bunch of documents purloined from Arizona Police."

Actually, that might be the most scary part of that article. We've now come to the point where stolen police records barely get mentioned...

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Friday 24th June 2011 18:31 GMT Steve Evans

Eh?

NATO e-books?

Best seller list

1: DIY IED defusal

2: How to make friends and influence people

2: How to survive a nuclear winter

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Friday 24th June 2011 18:31 GMT NomNomNom

No

No not the NATO bookshop

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Friday 24th June 2011 18:35 GMT Scuby

Ryan Cleary...

...clearly has an airtight alibi for this one!!!!

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Friday 24th June 2011 19:23 GMT Anonymous Coward

"Does not contain any classified or secret information"

No such thing as Classified *or* Secret. Secret *is* Classified

Classification in order of increasing sensitivity:

Restricted

Confidential

Secret

Top Secret

Each can be further restricted with caveats such as codewords, country restrictions or distribution list etc.

Before anyone asks: yes, if you had a project called Bollocks, you could in theory be working on Top Secret Bollocks.

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Friday 24th June 2011 19:28 GMT Martin Ryan

why store passwords

I don't understand why any website like this is designed to store passwords. Surely use of a salted hashed version by now is taught in kindergarten?

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1. Sunday 26th June 2011 07:04 GMT Lance 3
  
  Illegal
  
  Two problems with your thinking.
  
  1) The FDA and the surgeon general both say too much salt is bad for you.
  
  2) Hash is illegal.
  
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Friday 24th June 2011 19:30 GMT Robin Szemeti

Passwords stolen?

I'm seriously hoping they mean "salted SHA1 hashes of the passwords, which will not allow the attackers to recover your actual password" rather than "Passwords" .... surely NASA will not have been dumb enough to actually store plain passwords?

Everyone know to only store hashes, I mean, its not rocket-science is it?

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1. Friday 24th June 2011 21:04 GMT Oninoshiko
  
  NASA?
  
  This is about NATO, which is a completely different organization. Although I think the North Atlantic Treaty Organization probably has at least as many rockets as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  
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2. Sunday 26th June 2011 11:57 GMT Tchou
  
  NATO's website
  
  is not necessarily made by NATO.
  
  Like anyone else, they probably hired a web dev guy or team.
  
  So, if the passwords were not encrypted, it's not like "NATO is a lamer in security" or recently "CIA has been hacked".
  
  Average Joe do web sites, and he may have BigCos as clients when they don't want to annoy their programmers teams with a simple public interface.
  
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  1. Monday 27th June 2011 14:00 GMT Martin Ryan
    
    NATO is a lamer in security
    
    - it's not like "NATO is a lamer in security"
    
    Well actually, yes it is like NATO is a lamer in security.
    
    When you hire someone to do a job for you, you tell them the standards to apply to ensure it is adequate for your organisation. And then you test it afterwards. You outsource the work, not the accountability.
    
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Saturday 25th June 2011 09:01 GMT Anonymous Coward

Greetings, Professor Falken.

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

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1. Monday 27th June 2011 12:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Wouldn't you rather play
  
  a nice game of chess?
  
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Saturday 25th June 2011 14:52 GMT John Smith 19

NATO has a book shop?

Who knew.

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1. Monday 27th June 2011 10:22 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson
  
  It was so top secret
  
  even their ads were classified
  
  mine's the one with the Dr Strangelove DVD in the pocket
  
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2. Monday 27th June 2011 10:45 GMT Wang N Staines
  
  More cash in books
  
  How do you think they are currently funding all those wars?
  
  Oils .. Nah
  
  Arms sales ... Nah
  
  Books are where the big margins are made.
  
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