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More than 1,000 Data Breaches Happened in 2016 Across the [...]
More than 1,000 Data Breaches Happened in 2016 Across the United States
📅 - A record high for data breaches marks 2016 as 1,093 total breaches happened. This represents a 40% increase from 2015, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Victims of these attacks range all the way from Wendy's Co. to the Democratic National Committee. Even with more aggressive cyber-security spending, these attacks still happened. Many even believe the number of breaches is even higher as many go unreported or even undiscovered.
Everything from login names and passwords to social security numbers were exposed during data breaches in 2016. Phishing was one of the leading types of attacks representing 56%, which is up from 38% in 2015.
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Z.com, the global brand of Japan's leading internet services company, GMO Internet Group, has now expanded to the Philippines. With the country positioned as one of the fastest-growing online populations in the world, the opening of Z.com brings affordable internet services to the market, such as domain registration, web hosting, VPS / cloud hosting, and SSL Certification.
The brand is backed by the technological expertise of GMO Internet Group, Japan's undisputed market leader in internet services since 1991. In 2014, the group made headlines when it bought the domain “Z.com” for USD
📅 - eNom Acquired By Tucows for $83.5 Million - Wholesale Domain Registrar eNom has been acquired by the ISP known as Tucows. The deal is worth $83.5 million and will add another 14.5 million domains and 28,000 resellers to the Tucows family. Tucows now has a network of more than 40,000 resellers across the glove and they are closing in on 30 million domains under management.
Tucows is headquartered in Toronto and employs more than 400 people. They also run Open SRS, a wholesale domain registrar. The deal will add to Tucows earnings immediately and eNom generated over $116.5 million in revenue just in the first three quarters last year.
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📅 - Creator of Mirai Botnet Extorting Web Hosting Companies - Brian Krebs, a security journalist, has put in hundreds of hours trying to figure out the person behind the Mirai botnet. This specific malware was used to take down Kreb's website in September and also to take down Dyn in October.
Krebs believes the author of this malware is Anna-Senpai and posted a long article about his reasoning on the website krebsonsecurity.com, recently. While Anna-Senpai isn't the author's real identity, Kreb believes he has the real identity nailed.
He believes it may be Jha, due to a nearly exact skill-set for programming and coding listed on Jha's LinkedIn profile compared to that of Anna-Senpai's skill-set found in Hackforums. However, Jha has denied the allega
📅 - HostingCon Global 2017 to Feature Keynote Hacker - Kevin Mitnick has been named as the keynote for HostingCon Global 2017 in April. Mitnick is a known white hat hacker and a security consultant. HostingCon Global joins many professionals across the data center, cloud and hosting industries. It will run from April 3rd to 6th in Los Angeles, California.
Mitnick is the CEO of Mitnick Security and a chief white hat hacker. He has spoken many times on social engineering and cybersecurity. Mitnick has even spoken publically about some of the things from his days as a black hat hacker.
The IT issue causing flights to be cancelled wouldn't allow pilots to get the weight and balance information they needed pre-takeoff. This led to a request that the Federal Aviation Administration would issue a ground stop for the flights. Over 200 flights were affected due to this IT ...
📅 - About 200K Servers Remain with Heartbleed Unpatched - An Open-SSL flaw has yet to be patched on about 200,000 servers, according to Shodan, a connected devices search engine. The Heartbleed Report was released this past weekend showing 52,000 Apache HTTPD servers with vulnerability and exposure.
About one in five of the vulnerable servers are found in the United States and AWS hosting has the highest number of servers followed by Verizon.
Originally, the vulnerability was disclosed about three years ago and a fix was released in April 2014. About half of the vulnerable servers, at the time, were secured by June 2014.
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