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]LinkedIn is becoming LinkedOut, at least in Russia. Our friend Vladimir Putin passed a law in 2014 that said that any company that operates in Russia needs to store it’s user’s data in country. Most U.S. companies protested against it, although it is believed that a few have an architecture that allows them to do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Comey has talked a lot about the “going dark” problem but we now have some statistics on the problem. So far this fiscal year, the FBI has received 6,814 devices – phones or computers – to forensically examine. Of those devices, only 2,095 of them had any form of password on the device. […]
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]The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter. While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal. In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]
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