He was fired after four weeks, ripped off the credentials of former colleague “Speedy”, and will be mulling it all over for two years in jail.
Tag Archives: Data loss
Change your Facebook password now!
Facebook has done an audit and shocked even itself by finding plaintext passwords in logfiles back to 2012. Change your password now!
Researchers fret over Netflix interactive TV traffic snooping
No sooner has Netflix made an interactive TV show than people are already pulling apart its privacy implications.
Elsevier exposes users’ emails and passwords online
The science publisher is blaming a misconfigured server that exposed a constant stream of its users’ credentials.
Gargantuan Gnosticplayers breach swells to 863 million records
Another 26m records stolen from another six online companies brings this hacker’s total number of records to 863m from 38 websites.
You left WHAT on that USB drive?!
Nudies, taxes, and memos – oh, my! Research shows that even if we think we’ve deleted content on the sticks, we’re leaving all that and more.
Misconfigured Box accounts leak terabytes of companies’ sensitive data
Easily guessable URLs led to what should have been big companies’ very private data. Even Box itself was found to be exposing folders.
Citrix admits attackers breached its network – what we know
On Friday, software giant Citrix issued a short statement admitting that hackers recently managed to get inside its internal network. According to a statement by chief information security officer Stan Black, the company was told of the attack by the FBI on 6 March, since when it had established that attackers had taken “business documents” […]
Email list-cleaning site may have leaked up to 2 billion records
The number of records exposed online by Verification.io email list-cleaning service may be far higher than originally anticipated.
Dow Jones Watchlist of risky businesses exposed on public server
A company with access to the Dow Jones Watchlist of risky people and businesses left it on a public AWS server without a password.