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IEEE password compromise was due to proxy “anomaly”
Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin has revealed last week that he found the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …
IEEE data breach demonstrates need for increased server-level security
According to news reports, the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have been found unencrypted on a FTP …
Pirate Bay’s co-founder deported to Sweden, Anonymous hacks Cambodian ministry
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been deported from Cambodia and has landed at Stockholm’s airport this morning, reports TorrentFreak. The formal reason …
Publishing firm says leaked Apple IDs came from their servers
BlueToad, a Florida-based digital edition publishing company, has announced that the recent massive Apple UDID leak originated from their own servers, and not an FBI laptop. …
Apple denies handing UDIDs over to FBI
As the issue of the leaked million of Apple device IDs by the AntiSec hacker group and the alleged existence of a list of over 12 million of those and other personal …
FBI denies collecting Apple device IDs
Following yesterday’s claim made by AnitSec hackers that they have gotten ahold of a document containing a list of over 12 million Apple iOS devices – including …
Anonymous leaks 1m Apple device UDIDs stolen from FBI
A file containing a million and one record sets containing Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) and some other general information about the devices has been made available …
Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again
Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia and the biggest oil company in the world, has issued a statement announcing that it has restored all its main internal …
Hackers leak information stolen from over 100 sites
Hacker collective Team GhostShell has posted on Saturday on their Twitter account links to a massive leak that supposedly includes over one million of user record sets stolen …
AMD attackers continue hacking spree, target Phillips
The R00tbeer Security Team hacking collective is hell-bent on making a name for themselves on the Internet. Following the hack of AMD’s official blog and discussion …
AMD’s blog hacked, user data leaked
The official blog of microprocessor manufacturer AMD has been hacked by a group of relative newcomers to the hacking scene that go by the name of r00tBeer. The main page of …
Huge jump in number of fines for data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed a huge increase in the number of penalties handed out for organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. …
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