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Snapchat, feeling the heat, will let users opt out of compromised feature
2014-01-03 13:45:07| InfoWorld: Top News
Snapchat, reeling from a recent hack that exposed millions of user names and partially redacted phone numbers of its members, will now let users back out of the feature that hackers abused. The company also said it would improve some mechanisms, including a tool known as "rate limiting," to combat future attempts to abuse its service.
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NSA reportedly compromised more than 50,000 networks worldwide
2013-11-25 18:59:57| InfoWorld: Top News
The U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) reportedly hacked into more than 50,000 computer networks around the world as part of its global intelligence gathering efforts, and it also taps into large fiber optic cables that transport Internet traffic between continents at 20 different major points.
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GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attack results in compromised accounts
2013-11-20 16:48:15| InfoWorld: Top News
Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. "We sent an email to users with compromised accounts letting them know what to do," GitHub security engineer Shawn Davenport said in a blog post. "Their passwords have been reset and personal access tokens, OAuth authorizations, and SSH keys have all been revoked."
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CME Group Confirms Some Information Compromised in Cyber Attack
2013-11-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The CME Group confirmed today that it was the victim of a "cyber intrusion" in July and that "certain customer information relating to the CME ClearPort platform was compromised," reports Sarah Mikesell, 5m senior editor.
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PHP.net compromised and used to attack visitors
2013-10-25 13:50:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Visitors to the official website for the PHP programming language over the past couple of days might have had their computers infected with malware. Hackers managed to inject malicious JavaScript code into a file on the php.net site called userprefs.js. The code made requests to a third-party website that scanned visitors' browsers for vulnerable plug-ins and executed exploits that, if successful, installed a piece of malware, said Daniel Peck, a research scientist at Barracuda Networks.
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