The Taringa hack is actually one of the biggest leaks of the year with 27 million weakly hashed passwords breached, but it’s not often covered in the Western media with it being a Latin American site (something like Reddit). The leak happened in August and it seems like the hackers were able to brute force […]
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Equifax Hack Blamed On Single Employee
We wrote about the Equifax Hack, Data Breach and Leak last month, which happened due to a flaw in Apache Struts that for some reason hadn’t been patched. Now it seems the CEO Rick Smith is basically placing the blame on a single employee that failed to pass a message on to the right people, […]
Deloitte Hacked – Client Emails, Usernames & Passwords Leaked
It seems to be non-stop lately, this time it’s Deloitte Hacked, which has also revealed all kinds of publically accessible resources that really should be more secure (VPN, RDP & Proxy services). The irony is that Deloitte positions itself as a global leader in information security and offers consulting services to huge clients all over […]
CCleaner Hack – Spreading Malware To Specific Tech Companies
The CCleaner Hack is blowing up, with it initially estimated to be huge, it’s hit at least 700,000 computers and is specifically targeting 20 top tech organisations including Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Akamai, Samsung and more for a second, more intrusive and pervasive layer of infection. This could be classified as slightly ironic too as CCleaner […]
Equifax Data Breach – Hack Due To Missed Apache Patch
The Equifax data breach is pretty huge with 143 million records leaked from the hack in the US alone with unknown more in Canada and the UK. The original statement about the breach is as follows for those that weren’t up to date with it, which came out Sept 7th (4 months AFTER the breach […]