#Godaddy password change update#

Meanwhile, GoDaddy has said it will provide a complimentary yearsвЂ™ worth of security and malware removal services for those customers affected, and has expressed 'regret this incident occurred.' GoDaddy to provide free security services to those affected

#Godaddy password change update#

I have reached out to GoDaddy with regards to how many accounts were affected and will update this article once I have an official response. Information is scarce, at this stage, beyond what I've already detailed. While the attacker has been 'blocked from our systems,' the email said, it also stated that GoDaddy is continuing to determine any potential impact across its environment.

However, the investigation into this incident is far from over. MORE FROM FORBES Ghost Confirms Hack Attack: 750,000 Users Spooked By Critical Vulnerability By Davey Winder 'SSH is used to access an organisationвЂ™s most critical assets, so itвЂ™s vital that organisations stick to the highest security level of SSH access and disable basic credential authentication, and use machine identities instead,' Blachman said, 'this involves implementing strong private-public key cryptography to authenticate a user and a system.' 'The GoDaddy breach underlines just how important SSH security is,' Yana Blachman, a threat intelligence specialist at Venafi, said. If you want to dive into the technical detail, then Hackaday has an excellent article about the 'terminal program that talks to a server using an encrypted connection.' SSH is, as you might imagine then, quite a useful attack vector for hackers. SSH is an acronym for secure shell, a network protocol used by system administrators to access remote computers. The email notification stated that, upon an investigation of the incident, it was determined that an 'unauthorized individual' had gained access to login credentials that meant they could 'connect to SSH' on the affected hosting accounts.