4Chan Cesspool is Back Online 4Chan, the cesspool of a website that spews all sorts of hate and garbage, is back. Unfortunately. They have described what happened, loosely. Bottom line was that they were not maintaining their systems and, as a result, they were hacked. Their data and source code was hacked and the rest […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Companion bills in the Florida House and Senate would require social media companies to add backdoors to their security to allow law enforcement to eavesdrop on users’ conversations if they want to. SB 868 and HB 743 would require social media platforms to decrypt users’ data if asked to by law enforcement (it would require […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Settlement Checks Coming for 2021 T-Mobile Breach In 2021 a T-Mobile breach exposed data on 76 million customers. This is separate from the 2023 breach that impacted 37 million customers. If you are one of them, you may be eligible for some money. But don’t celebrate yet. The settlement is for $350 million. If all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Downloads Soar After Signalgate While, possibly, the use of Signal in Washington may decrease, Signal says the number of downloads it is seeing is double the usual rate. Prior to Signalgate, Signal was already having a banner year, so this just makes it a double banner year. Maybe people think that if Signal is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US National Security Advisor Not So Good At Personal Security In light of “Signalgate”, reporters are looking for more breaches of security at the upper echelon of the president’s team. All of this is unclassified, but still sensitive. This includes National Security Advisor Waltz’s Venmo friend list (he has 328 friends), mobile phone numbers, email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers replaced the NYU homepage with charts and links to large student datasets. The hacker CLAIMED he redacted personal data but a security expert said “not really”. The charts linked to four different databases that includes personal information on applicants to NYU. The security expert said the hacker did not redact the information correctly and […]
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