Carbonite Apologies For Spam

November 11th, 2011 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

Carbonite backup is red-faced after admitting a foul up that resulted in their customers being inundated with spam. The company blames the incident on a an advertiser they were working with on a marketing campaign and says that advertiser “misappropriated” a …

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Carbonite Apologies For Spam

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PSN Security Breach: Gaming Not So Fun Anymore, a Warning to Others?

May 4th, 2011 → 5:32 am @ Jamie Campbell

the issue has turned into something of a nightmare, both for Sony and the 78 million members of the services. Hours turned into days, days into a week. What was very quietly sold as an outage turned into the worst possible outcome: three days into the outage, Sony finally announced that the service failure was in fact the product of “an external intrusion.”

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Two Men Charged in iPad Email Hack

January 28th, 2011 → 2:59 am @ Sue Walsh

Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of over 100,000 email addresses from AT&T customers who own iPads.
The two men, Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, and 25-year-old Andrew Auernheimer of Fayetteville, Ark, are accused of hacking AT&T’s website to take advantage of a vulnerability they discovered. The vulnerability was discovered in the [...]

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