Tens of millions more web accounts for sale after more sites hacked, Mac malware spreads via Windows.exe, and more Let's kickstart your Monday with some lovely juicy computer security and screwups news, beyond what we reported last week. New round of data theft claims Throughout last week, El Reg broke the news that more than 600 million accounts details had been stolen from more than a dozen websites, and were being offered for sale on …
Yes, I saw one I recognised too, but I'm not worried about Animoto.
I only test when I can use something for a real life application, and as privacy is a paid-for option that was pretty much where my examination ended. Also, I like using Revolut's disposable credit card system - it tells you that it has bounced a number you already disposed of :).
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Come on, you're just making this stuff up. Although some seems to be disruptive enough.
While I question your sanity for bragging here of all places, just goes to show that it is shockingly easy to get info. I even stumbled upon a list of some hundreds of card numbers, names, and CCV's on Pastebin, completely unintentionally—I imagine it would be very easy with their "alert you for posts containing XYZ" premium feature.
After I alerted the company that their info had been jacked, they quietly shuttered their windows and then closed their doors. RIP.
I suspect that the Mono-based attack isn't really a sopisticated attempt at disguise. More likely it's Windows developers writing code the only way they know how. You see it all the time in the Linux world, Mono used, not for porting .NET applications, but for writing new ones from scratch.
"On one hand, Facebook can and should be able to protect its employees from any threat of harm."
No. It should not. Since when should Facebook take over law enforcement duties? So in order to "protect their employees", they do what even police wouldn't be allowed to do - they track and monitor people 24/7 without their knowledge...?
If someone is threatening Facebook employees, they should refer that case to the police instead of taking the law into their own hands and using illegal actions against these so-called "threats."
It's cheap, hourly pedestrian transportation, requiring little effort from both the rider and the company providing them to create a successful business model. What's the problem?
While you get mad, the companies capitalizing will make mad money, and rest of the world will be using them.
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