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Why key escrow dealios are a BAD, BAD, BAD IDEA.
Attackers steal password data, user messages, email addresses, and more.
Misconfigured server allows randos to use rsync to mess with it.
WTAF.
With numerous warnings of the financial, public safety and privacy threats that hackers pose to local governments, Pittsburgh officials purposefully give residents little insight on the city’s security flaws. Except Pittsburgh spilled its own secrets.
The hacking of an email account of a medical clinic employee during travels overseas demonstrates the risks posed to data when workers travel. Security experts
The leak may include data on hundreds of millions of Americans, with hundreds of details for each, from demographics to personal interests.
Server forgotten about for twelve years.
Automated "quality checks" by databases of incoming records fsck a whole bunch of data up. Heckuva job, programmers. I bet y'all didn't think you needed human review.
Joshua Schulte uploaded CIA code to a personal website linked to his real name, archived versions of the site show.
Last year's breach affected more than half of Americans. Here's exactly what was exposed.
Good example of escalation and migration.
Leominster School District was the target of a ransomware attack last month which resulted in a $10,000 Bitcoin payment to anonymous cyber extortionists.
London's Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has been fined £120,000 for a data leak identifying 943 people who owned vacant properties in the borough.
How a hacker weaponized flattery and took over our writer’s Twitter account.
Atlanta’s city government has been struggling for days with ransomware that has crippled its computer networks and forced it back to doing business with ink and paper.