LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:48:00
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Dan

LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it happened as a result of the same adversary launching a second attack on its systems.

The company said one of its DevOps engineers had their personal home computer...

GoDaddy Discloses Multi-Year Security Breach Causing Malware Installations and Source Code Theft

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:37:00
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Dan

Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services.

The company attributed the campaign to a "sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting service...

PostgreSQL Major Update v.15

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:59:00
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Dan

The next server update ("Wednesday around 5pm NZ time (8am UTC)") includes a few hours of downtime.
The reason is not really the major update of PostgreSQL. But we take the opportunity to clean up the database at the same time (especially for Matrix).

This means that Matrix and our Git instance w...

Mailchimp says it was hacked — again

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:38:00
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Dan

Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. It’s the second time the company was hacked in the past six months. Worse, this breach appears to be almost identical to a previous incident.

The Intuit-owned company said in an unattr...

WhatsApp Hit with €5.5 Million Fine for Violating Data Protection Laws

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:30:00
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Dan

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta's #WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users' #personal information.

At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform's Terms of Service that was imposed...