100k IEEE site Plain-Text Passwords found on Public FTP

A Romanian researcher - Radu Drăgușin found that 100000 usernames and passwords of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE was stored in plaint-text on a publicly accessible FTP server. According to him, on Sept. 18 he first discovered a log with usernames and passwords in...

Researcher Finds 100k IEEE.org Passwords Stored in Plain-Text on Public FTP Server

A Romanian computer scientist discovered that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE was storing its members’ usernames and passwords in plaint-text on a publically accessible file transfer protocol FTP server. Radu Drăgușin claims the collection of nearly 100,000 credentials...