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Let’s Encrypt is an organization that provides free SSL certificates for websites and other services. Because it is free, it is not only popular with website owners but is also used by fraudsters to trick their way into obtaining security certificates similar to the original. Let’s Encrypt is fighting the phenomenon, but there is still a lot of abuse: in 2016, for example, more than 15,000 of its certificates were …
Unknown hackers hacked into the Dueling Network network and obtained the user database of the associated forum. A total of 6.5 million records are at stake, containing user names and the hash code used to verify passwords and other personal information. Users have been informed of the incident and asked to change their passwords. Anyone who has used the login details elsewhere should ensure that they are changed at other …
The social networking site Little Monsters has not been careful with its private information either, with the data of its 1 million users falling into the wrong hands. Hackers obtained user IDs, password hashes, email addresses, and birth dates from the service. These are users who followed Lady Gaga on the site. An immediate password change is recommended, especially if it is not the only one used on Little Monster.
During an investigation, the BKA has discovered a collection of 500 million user records on the dark side of the web. In addition to user names, the database also contained email addresses and associated passwords, which could be used to create a perfect opportunity for fraudsters to try to gain access to social networking services. The latest data in the database is from December 2016.
And that’s something the company that makes them doesn’t know: an interactive teddy bear company, TeddyBear, used CloudPets to make the gadgets talk and react, only the latter’s servers weren’t very secure. The result was devastating: a total of 800,000 users’ logins and personal information were exposed online.
The CIA has one of the largest collections of programs globally for hacking other applications. According to WikiLeaks, the investigative agency has at least 8,000 apps that can easily hack into Android, Windows, and macOS, among others. Exactly which apps and how they work will be revealed soon, courtesy of WikiLeaks.
It’s a pretty old story, a year-old story: the Witcher games forum was hacked in March 2016. However, it was not known what the intruders had taken until now. It has finally been revealed that they took the personal data of a vast number of users, 1.9 million users to be precise, including email addresses, usernames, and passwords.
If there’s one hacker attack we can identify with, it’s this: the Anonymous team attacked and disabled servers on the dark web, most of them for helping to stream and exchange child porn content. A “server” called Freedom Hero II was rendered entirely inaccessible during the attack.
A hacker called Stackoverflowin has hacked no less than 150,000 printers worldwide. The programmer created a script that exploited long-standing but unpatched security flaws in the drives. The hack did not pose a real threat but rather highlighted that networks can be attacked through elements that you might not think of at first glance.
German Telekom moved one of its services, but a minor glitch in the process caused users’ data to get mixed up during the software upgrade. For example, the incorrect synchronization caused a different email address to appear in users’ accounts instead of their set. The service provider has detected the error and has already fixed it – but still recommended a password change for customers.