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Security News for the Week Ending December 16, 2022

Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]

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Rackspace Hosted Exchange Still Offline Over ‘Security Issue’

In the face of a security incident that Rackspace is being very opaque about, Rackspace’s stock is down 15% today. Rackspace is still not providing much information about what the hell is going on. Thousands of Rackspace customers globally continue to deal with the outage, which Rackspace says is related to a security incident (whatever […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 18, 2022

Remember Mastodon’s 1 Million Users Last Week – Now 6 Million Last week I reported that the open source distributed alterative to Twitter, Mastodon (sorry, mammoth, I misspelled it last week) now has 6 million. While that pales before Twitter’s 200 million, the growth curve is interesting. And because it is distributed, it will be […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 11, 2022

AstraZeneca Learns About Cloud Security – As Should You Apparently, AstraZeneca left credentials to an internal server on GitHub for over a year. The credentials granted access to a test SalesForce environment that contained patient data. Once TechCrunch told them about it, they made the repository private. Who found that repo, who found the credentials, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 21, 2022

Few Election Offices Use .Gov Domain Years ago, .gov domains cost $400. In a case of penny wise, pound foolish, something like three quarters of all election officers figured that saving $400 versus a non-spoofable domain name was a smart trade off. And we wonder why the hackers are winning. Credit: The Washington Post LinkedIn […]

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