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Low Tech Thieves are a Major IT Security Risk
Much of the news lately has been around high tech security risks, DDoS, attacks, hackers, and personal data breaches. These security issues have reached large and small businesses alike and have wreaked havoc for consumers caught in the middle. A seemingly low-tech threat is surfacing with a recent news story. Vudu, which is a [...]
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Evernote Hack Affects Millions
Popular cloud, note taking service Evernote, is the latest victim in a growing list of hacks, attacks, and security concerns for cloud-enabled companies. With an estimated 50 million users affected, the recent attack had social media and blogs buzzing with frustrated users. Evernote announced the compromise via its official blog site and explained that it [...]
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Amazon Outage Has Shoppers Contemplating Leaving their Homes, Yeah not likely…
Shoppers had to leave their homes for a brief period of time to get their shopping done today, while the mega-retailer Amazon experienced a roughly 45 minute outage. Some savvy shoppers however found it easier to choose other online retailers that were not experiencing an outage to purchase their wares. The outage only seemed [...]
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GoDaddy Says Internal Network Events Caused Outage not DDoS Attack
In a published statement on GoDaddy’s site, Interim CEO Scott Wagner provided a statement giving details about the September 10th outage that lasted most of the day and affected millions of users, GoDaddy hosted websites, and Domains. GoDaddy Statement: Yesterday, GoDaddy.com and many of our customers experienced intermittent service outages starting shortly after 10 a.m. [...]
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Breaking News: GoDaddy Outage affecting Millions of Users – Update and live coverage
Breaking News: GoDaddy’s main site is down and that’s not all. Users are reporting email and websites are down across the platform. Access to the main site www.godaddy.com gets a failed to open page and users on Facebook and Twitter are complaining about affected email. According to GoDaddy’s twitter page they are aware of the [...]
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Hacker Group Outs 1M Apple Unique Device ID’s 11M more in their Possession
A hacker group by the name of AntiSec has released 1M Apple UDID’s or (Unique Device Identifiers). Unlike many other recent hacks that found vulnerabilities in corporate security giving way to personal information; the group allegedly obtained the information from an FBI laptop that was compromised. The information obtained contained personal information such as names, [...]
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DropBox Admits to Compromise Employee File with Usernames and Passwords Hacked
Dropbox on Tuesday reported via a blog post, that it was upgrading its security measures on the platform. This news came from the fact that a number of users emails and passwords, stolen from another recent site hack, had ended up allowing hackers to compromise the service. One of the user names and passwords that [...]
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No one is screaming Yahoo, Yet another Password Security breach
Yahoo today joins the long growing list of compromised companies with exposed public usernames and passwords on the web. The security breach which has some 450,000+ private credentials available for anyone to download via a hacker group known as D33Ds, was accessed by the group through a text file, when an exploit was found on [...]
