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GoDaddy, the popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company, has suffered a data breach that affected over a million of their Managed WordPress customers. What happened? “On November 17, 2021, we discovered unauthorized third-party acc… Continue reading GoDaddy breach: SSL keys, sFTP, database passwords of WordPress customers exposed
Web-hosting firm and domain registrar GoDaddy has revealed that it has suffered cyber attack which saw a hacker gain access to details of over one million customers.
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GoDaddy found crooks in its network, and kicked them out – but not before they’d been in there for six weeks. Continue reading GoDaddy admits to password breach: check your Managed WordPress site!
By Waqas
GoDaddy detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers.
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Data connected with up to 1.2 million GoDaddy customers may have been accessed by an unauthorized party, the company reported to the U.S. Securities and Exhcnage Commission Monday. GoDaddy, a behemoth in the commercial web hosting and domain registrar space, reported that it discovered the apparent intrusion on Nov. 17, and that the improper access dated back to Sept. 6. Using a compromised password, an unknown party accessed a GoDaddy system dedicated to managed WordPress services, where the company offers customers hosting and other content management features. Up to 1.2 million active and inactive customers’ email addresses and customer numbers were exposed, which could set them up for phishing attacks, Demetrius Comes, the company’s chief information security officer, wrote in the notice. “We are sincerely sorry for this incident and the concern it causes for our customers,” Comes wrote. “We, GoDaddy leadership and employees, take our responsibility to protect customers’ data […]
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CloudBees named engineering and technology strategy leader Dinesh Keswani as chief technology officer. Keswani most recently served as group CTO at HSBC, one of the world’s largest financial services firms. He takes over the top technology strategy and… Continue reading Dinesh Keswani joins CloudBees as CTO
Tailor Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding. Continue reading Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch
A key malicious domain name used to control potentially thousands of computer systems compromised via the months-long breach at network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds was commandeered by security experts and used as a “killswitch” designed to turn the sprawling cybercrime operation against itself, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Continue reading Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’
Two separate groups of academics have recently released research papers based on research into the Domain Name System (DNS). One has found that the overwhelming majority of popular site operators haven’t learned from the 2016 Dyn/Mirai incident/a… Continue reading How prevalent is DNS spoofing? Could a repeat of the Dyn/Mirai DDoS attack have the same results?
By Deeba Ahmed
Earlier this month, hackers targeted GoDaddy customers to modify the DNS settings of at least two cryptocurrency website. Here’s what happened.
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