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This Woman Hacked Bank’s Servers To Mine Cryptocurrency

A couple of months back, ex-Amazon employee Paige Thompson was accused of gaining unauthorized access to the cloud servers of the US-based bank Capital One and 30 other entities. Thompson, who is currently in custody, was indicted on Wednesday and charged with Wire Fraud, Computer Fraud and Abuse. She will be presented in front of

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How Gmail accounts are hacked… Google research reveals the ways 

“What we learned from the research proved to be immediately useful. We applied its insights to our existing protections and secured 67 million Google accounts before they were abused.” – Google 2017 The three greatest threats to users According to Google, phishing attacks – which in case you don’t know are a method by which

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Hostinger’s database of 14 million customers’ info hacked

Web hosting provider Hostinger has forcibly reset all of its client passwords as a “precautionary measure” following an unauthorized access of its customer database, which contains some 14 million users. “During this incident, an unauthorized third party has gained access to our internal system API, one of which had access to hashed passwords and other non-financial

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Turns out some groups axed by Facebook for content violations were actually hacked

A Reddit thread on Wednesday called attention to many Facebook Groups’ privacy settings being changed to “secret.” The post generated more than 450 comments, with rumors that many Groups had been attacked by a spammer posting violating content that resulted in the Groups being removed by Facebook. Group admins were doing their best to avoid

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Google webspam report: Hacked sites, user-generated spam, bad linking topped 2018 priorities

Google released its annual webspam report last week to highlight advances against content that seeks to manipulate ranking algorithms and harm users. The company is also calling on webmasters, developers, and users to utilize its resources to prevent and report such content. Why should you care? Some of the ways Google is trying to thwart

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WordPress accounted for 90 percent of all hacked CMS sites in 2018

Image: Sucuri Roughly 90 percent of all the hacked content management systems (CMSs) Sucuri investigated and helped fix in 2018 were WordPress sites. In a distant second, third, and fourth came Magento (4.6 percent), Joomla (4.3 percent), and Drupal (3.7 percent), according to a report the company published yesterday. Sucuri experts blamed most of the

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