The ICO found a “catalog of errors,” including backups without passwords, unpatched servers, no-longer-supported OSes and feeble anti-virus.
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Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot
We don’t care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities.
The cryptominer that kept coming back
A Monero cryptominer made a home on an Apache Tomcat server and just wouldn’t stay away.
Secret Service busts online car sales crime ring
They posed as military needing to offload cars before deployment, allegedly posting bogus ads on Craigslist, eBay, and AutoTrader.
Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites
Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing administrator usernames and passwords.
AdGuard adblocker resets passwords after credential-stuffing attack
AdGuard has taken the decision to reset all user accounts after suffering a credential-stuffing and brute-force password attack.