3 Security Lessons From BART's Anonymous Breach
An attack on Bay Area Rapid Transit websites by the hacker collective Anonymous this week drew international attention for political reasons. But these intrusions are catching the interest of IT pros for professional reasons, since the weaknesses in BART's IT security are by no means unique to the transit authority.
On Sunday, Anonymous appeared to have attempted a denial of service attack on BART.gov, the agency's primary site, to little effect, but did manage to breach a secondary site, myBART.org, and released the private information of BART customers on an Anonymous website. On Wednesday, the group compromised the BART Police Officers Association site, again publishing private information from the database of BART police officers.
So what can IT admins learn from looking at BART's security crisis? Plenty. Here are the three biggest lessons from BART's ordeal.
