Last week’s megastory was the Gentoo breach that saw an entire online Linux code repository hacked – now we know how it happened…
Tag Archives: breach
Nest turns up the temperature on password reusers
Nest’s advice to its users gets a thumbs-up from the Online Trust Alliance.
Yahoo fined $35m for staying quiet about mega breach
The smallest thing about the Yahoo mega-breach is the fine
Yahoo mega-breach hacker faces nearly 8 years in prison
The hacker exposed half a billion Yahoo accounts on behalf of Russia’s FSB
Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked
The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.
What would YOU do with a $1,000,000 exploit? [Chet Chat Podcast 220]
Here’s the past week’s news in a way that’s fun, informative and educational – all in a tight, quarter-hour podcast format. (Plus – find out what Chester would do with the $1m!)
Your identity is secured by TWO Caesar ciphers! [Chet Chat Podcast 217]
Listen to the latest episode of our computer security podcast – from cyberdétente to cyberknitting… 
Patreon crowdfunding site hacked – all it takes is one mistake…
Debugging a test version of your website with real data? Best to have it on a test network, not the real internet!
We hashed them once, we hashed them twice! 60 Second Security
Out weekly wrap-up video. Watch (and smile!) in just 1 minute…
11 million Ashley Madison passwords cracked in 10 days
Remember how Ashley Madison did one thing right: hashed the passwords properly? Turns out they missed a few…million.