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Internet Archive wobbles back online, with limited functionality
2024-10-16 07:28

DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling...

The Internet Archive Breach: Over 31 Million User Accounts Exposed
2024-10-11 18:11

Attackers got hold of a 6.4 GB file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of users registered with The Internet Archive.

Patch Tuesday: Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Still Pose a Problem
2024-10-10 10:10

Patch Tuesday brings patches for hundreds of vulnerabilities. Plus, Apple makes sure Sequoia plays nice with third-party security tools.

Internet Archive data breach, defacement, and DDoS: Users’ data compromised
2024-10-10 09:39

The Internet Archive has suffered a data breach, leading to the compromise of email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes of some 31 million users. The compromise was revealed on...

Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
2024-10-10 01:33

31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and having had its user account data...

Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS
2024-10-10 01:33

31 million users' usernames, email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords are out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and exposing user data.…

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
2024-10-09 22:22

Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. [...]

700K+ DrayTek routers are sitting ducks on the internet, open to remote hijacking
2024-10-02 21:33

With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks Fourteen bugs in DrayTek routers — including one critical remote-code-execution flaw that received a perfect 10 out of 10...

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber Espionage Campaign
2024-09-26 04:49

Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a "handful" of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign orchestrated to glean sensitive information, The...

Unexplained ‘Noise Storms’ flood the Internet, puzzle experts
2024-09-19 13:57

Internet intelligence firm GreyNoise reports that it has been tracking large waves of "Noise Storms" containing spoofed internet traffic since January 2020. However, despite extensive analysis, it...