This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild

The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like this started at least as early as September 28, while the site itself was showing …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild

Internet Archive data breach, defacement, and DDoS: Users’ data compromised

The Internet Archive has suffered a data breach, leading to the compromise of email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes of some 31 million users. The compromise was revealed on Wednesday afternoon, when the digital library’s websit… Continue reading Internet Archive data breach, defacement, and DDoS: Users’ data compromised

Account credentials of 26+ million LiveJournal users leaked online

A data dump containing account information of over 26 million LiveJournal users has been offered for sale on dark web marketplaces and is now being shared for free on underground hacker forums. The data dump, supposedly originating from a 2014 LiveJour… Continue reading Account credentials of 26+ million LiveJournal users leaked online

This Week in Security: Let’s Encrypt Revocation, Ghostcat, and the RIDLer

Let’s Encrypt recently celebrated their one billionth certificate. That’s over 190 million websites currently secured, and thirteen full-time staff. The annual budget for Lets Encrypt is an eye-watering $3.3+ million, covered by sponsors like Mozilla, Google, Facebook, and the EFF.

A cynic might ask if we need to rewind the …read more

Continue reading This Week in Security: Let’s Encrypt Revocation, Ghostcat, and the RIDLer