If you have ever contacted sites like Tumblr, Twitter, Groupon, Sony Music, Sears and many others, then you may want to pay attention to the most recent hacking scare which is with Zendesk. Zendesk provides customer service software and management for many organizations, outsourcing support and providing an out of the box solution to those that need to support their customers.
Over the weekend Twitter revealed that last week they were hacked, and that only a “very small percentage” of users were affected by this hack. Well, I don’t call 250,000 users very small, but since the user base is so large to Twitter this was a good spin to make it seem insignificant.
Well, it seems that the 2012 year was not the year for password ingenuity. With passwords being so important, the one firewall that keeps unwanted eyes from your private and personal information, it’s hard to imagine that people still use such simple and silly passwords as “password” or “123456.” Really people? Are you Elmo - look, I can count to six!
Is your favorite website experiencing problems today? There is a good chance that it is, since across the U.S. today there is a huge ~50% increase in malicious network attacks.
If we’re not careful as a society, we may end up with a closed Internet, regulated by big corporations with only their deep pockets in mind. It was a close call with SOPA, which as a unified front we were able to stop. The wheels never stopped turning after SOPA, as we have encountered ACTA and CISPA. Now it seems the ITU is trying to get in on the Internet, and bring regulations that will harm the openness of the world wide web.
One of the most recent high-profile cases of a security breach happened to a reporter named Mat Honan. Mr. Honan’s accounts were hacked when malicious hackers were able to convince technical support representatives for both Apple and Amazon that they were, in fact, Mr. Honan himself.
One word can sum this up: strange. The founder of the well known anti-virus computer software McAfee, is wanted for murder in Belize. Apparently John McAfee moved away to Belize some time ago so he could pursue his second love aside from being a programmer: drugs.
It’s pretty common for the White House and official government websites to be attacked by hackers. For whatever reason the hacker may have, hacking the government, or even the White House, would be an extremely difficult task, that would bring a lot of bragging rights if accomplished.
Good news for all you out there in Internetland. For those of you that were going to websites and it was erroring out due to the Go Daddy DNS failure earlier today, Go Daddy has confirmed via their Twitter that the issue has been resolved in the past hour.
If you are having problems accessing websites today you can thank Anonymous for it. Starting a couple hours ago, godaddy.com websites started failing due to a DNS outage, which an Anonymous user is claiming responsibility for.
A hacker that goes by the name Reckz0r on Twitter has claimed that he was able to hack into over 79 banks from around the world and obtain credit card information of Visa and MasterCard customers. The efforts took several months according to him via some Twitter posts.
In true Facebook fashion, they are trying to get every possible bit of information from it’s 900+ million users. The next step will be a new message that will sit atop of your news feed, starting soon, and some are already seeing it. The new message will ask you to “stay in control of your account” and send you over to the Facebook Security page - where you can verify your mobile number with the social giant.
Yesterday was not a good day for LinkedIn who confirmed that 6.5 million passwords were hacked and then leaked to the web. Although it’s uncertain exactly what accounts have been compromised, LinkedIn urged all of it’s users to change their passwords immediately. However, more bad news has arrised that eHarmony was hacked too, with 1.5 million passwords being hacked and leaked as well from the online dating website.
I don’t claim to know a lot about malware, or spyware for that matter, other than I know it’s bad shit and if your computer gets infected it can really mess things up. It’s also a pain in the ass to try to remove a virus, which I have had to do on an occasion or two. Which is also why I run virus scans often and am very careful about my web browsing and the sites I visit.
Many may not remember, but back in 2010 there was an investigation from the WSJ which discovered that Myspace was leaking private user data from their web apps on the social networking site. Almost two years later, Myspace has settled with the FTC which says that Myspace misled millions of users, sharing personal information with advertisers.
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