He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Beware sextortionists spoofing your own email address
In the past, they’ve pretended to have your passwords – now they’re pretending to send email from your “hacked” account, too.
Literary-minded phishers are trying to pilfer publishers’ manuscripts
In a twist on Business Email Compromise, they’re spoofing literary agents and going after manuscripts at Penguin Random House and Pan Macmillan.
What Kanye West can teach us about passcodes
Pulling out an iPhone XS to show the assembled throng a picture of the hydrogen-powered aircraft that “our president should be flying in,” West casually unlocked it using the passcode ‘000000’.
Experian credit-freeze PINs could be revealed by a simple trick
The credit bureaus’ struggles with PINs continue…
Payment skimmers sneaking on to websites via third party code
Whatever Magecart is, it’s been blamed for several high-profile payment card breaches this summer.
Millions at risk from default webcam passwords
Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co.,Ltd (Xiongmai), the Chinese manufacturer that made many of the devices left vulnerable to Mirai, is back with another vulnerability that puts millions of devices across the world at risk yet again.
Update now! Microsoft fixes 49 bugs, 12 are critical
Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday update made its scheduled appearance on Tuesday with fixes for 49 security flaws across its family of products, 12 of which are listed as ‘critical’.
Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew
Google’s closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.
291 records breached per second in first half of 2018
Over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year, according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index released this week.