Online Casino Transfer: News - Cake Poker Owns Up

08/16/2010		Online Casino Style: News Cake Poker Owns Up
Home History Games News Dictionary		A surprisingly vulnerable apology has been issued by the online gambling group Cake Poker Network this week, with their poker manager acting as the responsibility stepping up to admit their fault for security breaches in recent weeks. Lee Jones, the card room’s manager, issued a statement to the rest of the internet gambling press this week, wholly admitting to the faulty system, but with few excuses to explain how such a thing came to happen. The security holes were tracked down not by Cake Poker’s security team, but rather by the third party online gambling focum and site Poker Table Ratings, which published their findings last week. Their claim that Cake Poker’s encryption codes were weak was accurate, with the in house IT team scrambling to correct the error before the damage could be done. Unfortunately, video feed was then loaded showing how the site could be hacked, with perpetrators gaining access to other players’ hole cards, in addition to getting password information and user names from skins. The information was reported on the online poker information site 2-Plus-2, the same place that Jones issued his apology. It was the second report of its kind made by Poker Table Ratings, which found the same kind of security holes at the online gambling sites associated with Cereus. "Somewhere along the software ladder, there was an error of omission, commission, stupidity, documentation or some combination thereof. I'm not happy about it,” wrote Lee. " I'm going to post an official response shortly, but believe me, I feel crappy about having said in May that we had stronger encryption than Cereus did when we didn't. The lesson I've learned is to ask more harder questions when these sorts of things come up. I owe the entire Cake poker community an apology: I am very, very sorry."

08/16/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Cake Poker Owns Up

A surprisingly vulnerable apology has been issued by the online gambling group Cake Poker Network this week, with their poker manager acting as the responsibility stepping up to admit their fault for security breaches in recent weeks. Lee Jones, the card room’s manager, issued a statement to the rest of the internet gambling press this week, wholly admitting to the faulty system, but with few excuses to explain how such a thing came to happen.

The security holes were tracked down not by Cake Poker’s security team, but rather by the third party online gambling focum and site Poker Table Ratings, which published their findings last week. Their claim that Cake Poker’s encryption codes were weak was accurate, with the in house IT team scrambling to correct the error before the damage could be done.

Unfortunately, video feed was then loaded showing how the site could be hacked, with perpetrators gaining access to other players’ hole cards, in addition to getting password information and user names from skins. The information was reported on the online poker information site 2-Plus-2, the same place that Jones issued his apology. It was the second report of its kind made by Poker Table Ratings, which found the same kind of security holes at the online gambling sites associated with Cereus.

"Somewhere along the software ladder, there was an error of omission, commission, stupidity, documentation or some combination thereof. I'm not happy about it,” wrote Lee. " I'm going to post an official response shortly, but believe me, I feel crappy about having said in May that we had stronger encryption than Cereus did when we didn't. The lesson I've learned is to ask more harder questions when these sorts of things come up. I owe the entire Cake poker community an apology: I am very, very sorry."