Breaches & Alerts
Quora Was Hacked: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Quora, a popular online question-and-answer forum, announced last night that 100 million users may have had their data compromised in a breach. Quora CEO, Adam D’Angelo, said in his official statement that “some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party. We are working […]
Facebook Was Hacked: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Facebook, the social media giant with over two billion monthly active users, reported earlier today that their engineering team discovered an attack on their systems that compromised the information of 50 million Facebook users. As one of the leading data-collection agencies in the world, Facebook is nearly unrivaled in its depth and range of user […]
Reddit Was Hacked: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Reddit, which bills itself as the front page of the internet, fell victim to one of the internet’s oldest and most pressing issues: hacking. Earlier today, Reddit disclosed that “a hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database containing […]
Twitter Asks 330 Million Users to Change Their Password—What Happened?
Yesterday, Twitter disclosed a bug that left 330 million user passwords exposed in plaintext in an internal log. Twitter has been adamant that there has thus far been no breach or evidence of misuse; rather, a bug in their system meant that someone could have accessed those passwords. Any scenario where user passwords are stored in […]
Meltdown and Spectre: What you Need to Know to Stay Safe
Two critical security flaws were found, named “Meltdown” and “Spectre” which affect virtually all processors on the market. Nicole Perlroth, a New York Times cybersecurity writer, does a tremendous job of explaining the security flaws in this article. You can additionally read her Twitter thread below if you prefer. https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/948684376249962496 Essentially, this breaks down to […]
DDoS Attacks Are Crippling Twitter, Amazon, and Reddit. Here’s How.
Updated 10/24/2016 On Friday, October 21, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, AirBnb, Github, and several major websites reported outages due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DD0S). Here’s what you need to know about the attack and how to protect yourself. Wait, what exactly happened? On the morning of October 21, several prominent websites were taken […]
What Nobody Is Telling You About the Anthem Inc. Breach
The Anthem Inc. breach is massive and making headlines this week. The company disclosed on Wednesday that personally identifiable information (PII) of 80 million current and former members and employees have been lifted from their servers, including: Names Dates of birth IDs and social security numbers Addresses Phone numbers Email addresses Employment info Yikes. There’s a good chance […]