State Acknowledges Data Breach After 10 Months I guess better late than never. Finally, the State of Illinois is admitting to a data breach, sort of. Here is what they are now saying. Check the dates below. Notice who was among the last to know – the victims. Can the state be fined for breaking […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A hacker claims to have breached the Argentinian government’s network and stolen ID card details for every person in the country. The data is now being sold on the underground. The agency that holds the data, RENAPER or Registro Nacional de las Personas, is translated as the National Registry of Persons. The agency is tasked with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Investigating Multiple Windows 11 Issues While some of the issues are not fatal, others like a memory leak in File Manager that can only be recovered from by rebooting are more of a problem. I recommend waiting for a month or two in order for other users to detect more bugs. Credit: Bleeping Computer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just ask Twitch. The livestreaming service for video gamers, esports, music and other content fell to hackers. It was acquired by Amazon in 2014 for almost a billion dollars. Hackers broke in and stole 135 gigabytes of data. This includes all of the source code to the platform, transaction data, userids, passwords and other information. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Syniverse is a company that no one has ever heard of. They act as an interconnection between 300 mobile carriers and 95 of the top 100 carriers. They are the reason you can send a text message to your friend who is not on the same phone carrier as you are. It also allows you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One possible answer is that they wanted to steal your email, impersonate you and use your email accounts to send spam and malware. This is certainly possible, but there is another, more sinister possibility. What if – China was looking for mountains of data to train its AI systems? The attacks gave them tens of […]
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