cThe hacker group The Dark Overlord claims to have hacked Gorilla Glue and has stolen, they claim, over 500 GB of intellectual property. As I have said many times, the theft of intellectual property is a way bigger problem than the theft of credit cards. If someone steals your credit card, you whine at the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, announced a breach last month. Now the hackers behind the attack, the Dark Overlord, say that the clinic owner has not paid the ransom – 83 bitcoins or around $60k – and they are threatening to release more records. Last month they released names, birth dates, addresses, prescription info and socials of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adult Friend Finder, which bills itself as the largest sex and swinger community, was hacked, for the second time in a year. Last year was small beans. Last month it was: Adultfriendfinder.com – 339 million Cams.com – 62 million Penthouse.com – 7 million (and they don’t even own the web site any more) Stripshow.com – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you bought a car in the last few years, it is possible that your data is available for sale on the black market. Names, addresses, phone numbers and socials for both customers and employees for over a hundred car dealerships were exposed. For how long and to whom is unknown. The system that got […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time an open source database, MongoDB, is the source of another huge breach. But it isn’t Mongo’s fault. It wasn’t configured correctly. Human error one more time. OK, what are the details? And is it almost 60 million or 260 million? Modern Business Solutions apparently provides data storage services, although they have refused […]
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