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6/10/2014
3/02/2014
Largest single personal data hack ever? 360mn stolen account credentials found online
A cyber security firm has reported a “mind boggling” cache of stolen credentials which has been put up for sale on online black markets. A total of 360 million accounts were affected in a series of hacks, one of which seems to be the biggest in history.
Alex Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security LLC, said that the firm had uncovered the data over the past three weeks.
He said that 360 million personal account records were obtained in separate attacks, but one single attack seems to have obtained some 105 million records which could make it the biggest single data breach to date, Reuters reports. “The sheer volume is overwhelming,” said Holden in a statement on Tuesday.
“These mind boggling figures are not meant to scare you and they are a product of multiple breaches which we are independently investigating. This is a call to action,” he added.
Hold Security said that as well as 360 million credentials, hackers were also selling 1.25 billion email addresses, which may be of interest to spammers.
The huge treasure trove of personal details includes user names, which are most often email addresses, and passwords, which in most cases are unencrypted.
Hold Security uncovered a similar breach in October last year, but the tens of millions of records had encrypted passwords, which made them much more difficult for hackers to use.
“In October 2013, Hold Security identified the biggest ever public disclosure of 153 million stolen credentials from Adobe Systems Inc. One month later we identified another large breach of 42 million credentials from Cupid Media,” Hold Security said in statement.
He said that 360 million personal account records were obtained in separate attacks, but one single attack seems to have obtained some 105 million records which could make it the biggest single data breach to date, Reuters reports. “The sheer volume is overwhelming,” said Holden in a statement on Tuesday.
“These mind boggling figures are not meant to scare you and they are a product of multiple breaches which we are independently investigating. This is a call to action,” he added.
Hold Security said that as well as 360 million credentials, hackers were also selling 1.25 billion email addresses, which may be of interest to spammers.
The huge treasure trove of personal details includes user names, which are most often email addresses, and passwords, which in most cases are unencrypted.
Hold Security uncovered a similar breach in October last year, but the tens of millions of records had encrypted passwords, which made them much more difficult for hackers to use.
“In October 2013, Hold Security identified the biggest ever public disclosure of 153 million stolen credentials from Adobe Systems Inc. One month later we identified another large breach of 42 million credentials from Cupid Media,” Hold Security said in statement.
Holden said he believes that in many cases the latest theft has yet to be publically reported and that the companies that have been attacked are unaware of it. He added that he will notify the companies concerned as soon as his staff has identified them.
“We have staff working around the clock to identify the victims,” he said.
However, he did say that the email addresses in question are from major providers such as AOL Inc, Google Inc, Yahoo Inc, and Microsoft Corp, as well as “almost all” Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations.
Heather Bearfield, who runs cybersecurity for an accounting firm Marcum LLP, told Reuters that while she had no information about Hold Security’s findings, she believed that it was quite plausible as hackers can do more with stolen credentials than they can with stolen credit cards, as people often use the same login and password for many different accounts.
“They can get access to your actual bank account. That is huge. That is not necessarily recoverable funds,”she said.
The latest revelation by Hold Security comes just months after the US retailer Target announced that 110 million of their customers had their data stolen by hackers. Target and the credit and debit card companies concerned said that consumers do not bear much risk as funds are rapidly refunded in fraud losses.
“We have staff working around the clock to identify the victims,” he said.
However, he did say that the email addresses in question are from major providers such as AOL Inc, Google Inc, Yahoo Inc, and Microsoft Corp, as well as “almost all” Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations.
Heather Bearfield, who runs cybersecurity for an accounting firm Marcum LLP, told Reuters that while she had no information about Hold Security’s findings, she believed that it was quite plausible as hackers can do more with stolen credentials than they can with stolen credit cards, as people often use the same login and password for many different accounts.
“They can get access to your actual bank account. That is huge. That is not necessarily recoverable funds,”she said.
The latest revelation by Hold Security comes just months after the US retailer Target announced that 110 million of their customers had their data stolen by hackers. Target and the credit and debit card companies concerned said that consumers do not bear much risk as funds are rapidly refunded in fraud losses.
Reuters / Kacper Pempel
2/09/2014
The Anti-Social Network
Bob Dylan once sang, “The times they are a changing.”
I once sang, “I’ve got a combine harvester, it’s made out of kitchen spoons, and that’s why you’re a poo.”
Despite Bob’s bad grammar, he had a point and, somewhere, so do I. Because if I was a 10 year-old in this day and age, I probably would have tweeted that beautiful nonsensical serenade, or uploaded a video of it onto Youtube.
The recent birth of my sister’s human child got me brooding over the time and age that we are in, and how, at no point in the history of our planet, have events ever been recorded with such personable accuracy.
I mean, if only we could look back on John Wilkes Booth’s tweets and read, “Lol your beard is well silly, man, Imma kill you.” Or see George Michael’s FB status as “Interested in: Men.” Everything would have been different.
My brother-in-law decided to set up a Facebook account for my baby niece on her first day of life, with the idea that at some point down the line – especially with the new FB timelines – they could pass on the account to her for her own use. She would have a log of her whole life, right there for her to see, from conception to inevitable dysfunction.
This got me thinking about one day when I poop out a little Timmy, or however that shit works. Would he not be curious about daddy’s wanderlusting? I dread the thought that someday, at the click of a button, he would know everything there is to know about me. How would my kid respect me after seeing me wasted in a pile of my own vomit on the floor, swearing at the camera with knickers round my face? “Mummy, Mummy who is that girl daddy’s with?”
I once sang, “I’ve got a combine harvester, it’s made out of kitchen spoons, and that’s why you’re a poo.”
Despite Bob’s bad grammar, he had a point and, somewhere, so do I. Because if I was a 10 year-old in this day and age, I probably would have tweeted that beautiful nonsensical serenade, or uploaded a video of it onto Youtube.
The recent birth of my sister’s human child got me brooding over the time and age that we are in, and how, at no point in the history of our planet, have events ever been recorded with such personable accuracy.
I mean, if only we could look back on John Wilkes Booth’s tweets and read, “Lol your beard is well silly, man, Imma kill you.” Or see George Michael’s FB status as “Interested in: Men.” Everything would have been different.
My brother-in-law decided to set up a Facebook account for my baby niece on her first day of life, with the idea that at some point down the line – especially with the new FB timelines – they could pass on the account to her for her own use. She would have a log of her whole life, right there for her to see, from conception to inevitable dysfunction.
This got me thinking about one day when I poop out a little Timmy, or however that shit works. Would he not be curious about daddy’s wanderlusting? I dread the thought that someday, at the click of a button, he would know everything there is to know about me. How would my kid respect me after seeing me wasted in a pile of my own vomit on the floor, swearing at the camera with knickers round my face? “Mummy, Mummy who is that girl daddy’s with?”
I cringe at the idea of my kids going through my pseudo-diary Twitter
account, piecing together who I was and who they may become.
Thankfully, my tweets are
made up of random, surreal thoughts
and seem like gibberish to the
naked eye so the worst they can think of me is that I had Aspergers
or
something.
But I’ve come to a little gem of a realisation. In 10 or 20 years time, when we’ve all grown up and had Facebook for most of our lives and then reproduce, does this mean the end of social networking? I mean unless you’re a fucking hippy, how do you expect to educate your kids about right and wrong when their main influencers are seen doing and saying all the wrong things on a platform as accessible to them as a jar of cookies? This will probably lead, at some point within the next 10 years, to a mass privatising of accounts. Once we’re done with airing our dirty laundry in our rebellious years, we’re going to want to neatly fold it and put it at the back of our closets, with a child-proof lock on the door. The less accessible information available, the less users will sign up and eventually it becomes the anti-social network.
Could that be the end of Facebook as we know it? Makes a bit of sense doesn’t it?
Then again, by then we may all be telepathically connected to the internet and each other, and you won’t even have to open your eyes to see my rendition of Combine Harvester.KitchenSpoons.Poo.
But I’ve come to a little gem of a realisation. In 10 or 20 years time, when we’ve all grown up and had Facebook for most of our lives and then reproduce, does this mean the end of social networking? I mean unless you’re a fucking hippy, how do you expect to educate your kids about right and wrong when their main influencers are seen doing and saying all the wrong things on a platform as accessible to them as a jar of cookies? This will probably lead, at some point within the next 10 years, to a mass privatising of accounts. Once we’re done with airing our dirty laundry in our rebellious years, we’re going to want to neatly fold it and put it at the back of our closets, with a child-proof lock on the door. The less accessible information available, the less users will sign up and eventually it becomes the anti-social network.
Could that be the end of Facebook as we know it? Makes a bit of sense doesn’t it?
Then again, by then we may all be telepathically connected to the internet and each other, and you won’t even have to open your eyes to see my rendition of Combine Harvester.KitchenSpoons.Poo.
6/07/2013
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#Twitter notably absent from #NSA #PRISM list
Twitter was notably missing from a leaked list of Internet giants reported to be cooperating with The National Security Agency and the FBI on the surveillance program dubbed PRISM.
Those agencies are siphoning data from the servers of nine U.S. Internet companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple, according to news reports about the documents. The cloud storage device Dropbox was described as "coming soon," along with other unidentified firms.
Google and Apple have both denied any knowledge of PRISM. Apple stated "any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order." Google said "we disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully.
There may be two explanations for Twitter's absence.
Twitter has a history of noncompliance and fighting information requests against its users. That may, in part, explain its absence from the list of companies disclosed Thursday. The leaks were reported by The Washington Post and The Guardian.
In that instance, Twitter filed a motion in state court in New York in an effort to quash a court order asking it to turn over his communications on Twitter.
"As we've said many times before, Twitter users own their Tweets. They have a right to fight invalid government requests, and we stand with them in that fight. We appealed the Harris decision because it didn't strike the right balance between the rights of users and the interests of law enforcement," said Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser.
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Twitter is also currently embroiled in another legal skirmish to uphold the rights of user privacy. It's fighting a battle in France to not turn over information about users connected to complaints from a private French Jewish students group regarding anti-Semitic content.
Twitter's Prosser points out that the company tries to be transparent with its semi-annual Transparency Report on government requests.
Another explanation for Twitter's absense is that the bulk of its data — aside from direct messages — is publicly available in the form of tweets. That separates it from the likes of Yahoo and Google, which house years of personal emails and data on people.
4/11/2013
How #Gmail Has Evolved Over the Years #gmail
How Gmail Has Evolved Over the Years
Google's email platform has greatly evolved since its inception, with a lot of user feedback taken into account.
"Gmail was inspired by one user’s feedback that she was tired of struggling to find emails buried deep in her inbox," the company said on its official blog. "So we built a new email that leveraged the power of Google Search. You told us you were tired of spam, so we set to tackling that, and today your feedback makes it possible for Gmail to filter out well over 99% of incoming spam."
We almost forgot we had to wait a whole two years for GChat. Not to mention you had to be invited to sign up for an account by an existing user for the first three years. And although Gmail got its first Android app in 2009, the site didn't officially leave its beta test phase that same year.
For a full look at how the platform has evolved, check out the infographic below (click to enlarge) and let us know in the comments what you'd like to see from Gmail in the future.
Mashable composite, images via iStockphoto, kemie, and logo courtesy of Google
3/28/2013
who want cut the internet in #egypt
who want cut the internet in #egypt
Today is another slow day for internet in Egypt. Telecom Egypt announced that once again the Alexandria internet sea cable "SEA-ME-WE-Wa"
in the Mediternean was damaged and it will be fixed with no hours. This
is the second time it happens in less than one week. The first time was
last Friday if you remember.
Now we got Col. Ahmed Ali announcing on his official FB page that the Egyptian Navy forces arrested 3 divers while they were cutting the internet sea cable near El Shataby beach !!!
Col. Ali did not say who those divers suspected "The correct term" of damaging the cable were and why they were doing this.
It is worth to mention that this announcement comes after some telecommunication officials announced that they believed there was something criminal behind the damage in the internet cable. I think they got a hint
Of course you see this post after long time in browsing and attempting to collect links and so on..
Hopefully we will know soon who those three are and know their true story.
Now we got Col. Ahmed Ali announcing on his official FB page that the Egyptian Navy forces arrested 3 divers while they were cutting the internet sea cable near El Shataby beach !!!
Col. Ali did not say who those divers suspected "The correct term" of damaging the cable were and why they were doing this.
It is worth to mention that this announcement comes after some telecommunication officials announced that they believed there was something criminal behind the damage in the internet cable. I think they got a hint
Of course you see this post after long time in browsing and attempting to collect links and so on..
Hopefully we will know soon who those three are and know their true story.
Update :
East Alexandria prosecution with those standing behind the damage of internet cables in Alexandria and it turned out to be 3 fishermen who dive to search for old ships Junk
11/22/2012
#Google Net kingdom around the world
Google Net kingdom around the world
A rare look behind the server aisle. Here hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the server racks into a cooling unit to be recirculated. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of our servers.”
“Thousands of feet of pipe line the inside of our data centers. We paint them bright colors not only because it’s fun, but also to designate which one is which. The bright pink pipe in this photo transfers water from the row of chillers (the green units on the left) to a outside cooling tower.”
“Our pipes aren’t the only colorful things at our data centers. These cables are organized by their specific hue. On the floor, this can make things less technical: ‘Hand me a blue one.’”
“These colorful pipes send and receive water for cooling our facility. Also pictured is a G-Bike, the vehicle of choice for team members to get around outside our data centers.”
“These colorful pipes are responsible for carrying water in and out of our Oregon data center. The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water back to be cooled.”
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