It seems that not a day goes by without some security news, usually in the form of a breach. There have been some big ones too, from Target to Home Depot, as well as online ones, including the embarrassing Ashley Madison one. Now we have the latest news, and it's up there with the largest in history. 272 million emails
On November 24, 2013, researchers at Trustwave discovered that hackers have obtained up to 2 million passwords for websites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter (and others). Researchers learned this after digging into source code from Pony bonnet. It appears that information about this has only been made public very recently. Here's some quick stats about some of the domains from
Today I was trying to send a direct message to a friend. Included was a bit.ly link to a page I needed him to see. For some reason, Twitter kept saying there was an error and cannot send the DM. After checking his page to make sure he was still following me and sending a couple test DMs successfully, I
The United States has had little luck with landing Kim Dotcom or Julian Assange, but it has managed to grab a hacker. Hamza Bendelladj, known online as Bx1 is an Algerian hacker who was captured and extradited from Thailand. He was arrested back in January while moving through the Bangkok airport on his way from Malaysia. Bendelladj stands accused of hijacking
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