Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Your hard drive crashes. You hit “Save” without thinking and an important version is overwritten and lost forever. Someone accidentally deletes all the wedding pics. You restore an infected file to your new computer and end up having to start all over again.
Stuff happens.
Having a backup is a good idea. ...
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
A review of publicly visible content on Amazon's S3 storage service found that some sensitive data may be publicly accessible and could contain data used in a future network attack, according to Rapid7, which conducted the study. Misconfiguration issues are common when users set up the S3 service, exposing data ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
"Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in ...
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Sunday, July 29th, 2012
A hacking expert has launched a $200 password-cracking tool that makes it easy to decipher Internet traffic sent through a widely used method for securing businesses communications. Moxie Marlinspike, one of the world's top encryption experts, unveiled the tool on Saturday during a presentation at the Def Con hacking conference ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
A list with several million passwords belonging to users of the music community site Last.fm has been posted on the internet. The site owners have posted a statement saying that the company is investigating the leak and that all users of the service should change their passwords immediately. This is ...
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