| Cake Poker Apology After PTR Discovers Serious Software Flaws |
Cake Poker Network cardroom manager has posted a public online apology after claiming his poker network was safer than that of Cereus (proven to be flawed in security), despite claims from PokerTableRatings.com (PTR) that they had uncovered similar issues.Earlier this week, PTR exposed a huge security breach in Cake Poker Network's encoding, which meant that players' accounts could be hacked into (i.e. user names, passwords) and hole cards could be tampered with and stolen as they are dealt.
PTR Security has since posted video evidence of the above security breaches in action, despite Cake Poker cardroom manager, Lee Jones, stating that their software is more secure than the Cereus Network, which was also exposed by PTR for having flawed security.
Jones felt it necessary to post a very humbling apology and explanation of this most sensitive of situations on the popular 2plus2 poker forum:
"Sure, when the issue came up in May, I asked our software management team. They told me that we were more secure than Cereus [another network whose security flaws were exposed by PTR]. When this all came to light a few hours ago and they got down into the actual code, it turned out they were wrong (as one of the senior managers just admitted to me).
"Somewhere along the software ladder, there was an error of omission, commission, stupidity, documentation or some combination thereof. I'm not happy about it and neither is the manager to whom I spoke.
"Furthermore, I definitely have to accept some blame here. I could have (and wished I had) pushed further on the response I got, talked to some development people about it (they're in-house), etc.
"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."
Onlt recently PTR alerted the poker community of possible bot activity at PokerStars, which led to 10 accounts being frozen by the world's biggest poker site.
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