Collaborate Disseminate
Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database. Continue reading Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses
Windows Phone is dead, Disqus gets hacked, malvertising on X rated websites, North Korea ups their cyberattack game, the FBI arrests a cyberstalker, and more security news! Paul’s Stories Windows Phone is now officially dead: A sad tale of what might have been iOS Password Prompts are Ripe for Abuse Disqus Hacked: More than 17.5 […]
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America turns the heat up on Kaspersky anti-virus, Disqus announces a data breach, Elon Musk plans a bolthole on Mars to escape our robot overlords, and Graham gets to play chess with Garry Kasparov.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #047: Kaspersky, AI, and a well-handled data breach
What does the Disqus data breach tell us about security? Continue reading Learning from the Disqus data breach
Disqus confirmed a 2012 database breach on Friday impacting some data for 17.5 million users and including information dating back to 2007. “The snapshot includes email addresses, Disqus user names, sign-up dates, and last login dates in plain text for 17.5mm users,” Jason Yan, the company’s CTO, wrote in a blog post. “Additionally, passwords (hashed using SHA1 with a salt; not in plain text) for about one-third of users are included.” The company, which builds a commenting system for news websites, was notified on Thursday by security researcher Troy Hunt. Hunt runs the data breach notification website Have I Been Pwned. No plain text passwords were exposed but, as a precaution, all affected users had their passwords reset and Disqus is recommending changing any related password. The company does “not believe that this data is widely distributed or readily available.”
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Disqus has public announced that its user database leaked in 2012, exposing the usernames, email addresses, sign-up dates, and last login dates of more than 17 million users.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Disqus reveals data breach, but wins points for transparency
Another day, Another data breach disclosure.
This time the popular commenting system has fallen victim to a massive security breach.
Disqus, the company which provides a web-based comment plugin for websites and blogs, has admitted that it was breach… Continue reading Disqus Hacked: More than 17.5 Million Users’ Details Stolen in 2012 Breach
Apparently it wasn’t him who said those nasty things about Barack Obama’s mom.
Continue reading Trump appointee says for the ‘past several years’ he has been the victim of ‘multiple cyber attacks’
I write a blog with a lot of security things on it so understandably, it upsets me somewhat when my site throws security warnings:
I’d had a number of people report this and indeed I’d seen it myself, albeit transiently. Diving into the console, I found the source of the
Continue reading Disqus’ mixed content problem and fixing it with a CSP