Less than 18 months ago, the extramarital-affair-enabling website Ashley Madison had a huge data breach. Data from over 30 million accounts was posted online, and there was a flurry of shaming and finger-pointing all over the internet. You’d think the industry would have learned. Alas, it did not. A similar website, AdultFriendFinder, which calls itself “the world’s […]
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Many companies let their employers access important services with their own devices. Most of the time, this doesn’t cause any problems, but it does remove a bit of control. If a big mistake is made, it could end up causing a huge breach! Whether you own a company and let your employees use their own devices, […]
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In 2012, LinkedIn was hacked by an unknown Russian entity, and six million user credentials were leaked online. Four years later, it’s transpired that the hack was far worse than we first expected. In a report published by Vice’s Motherboard, a hacker called Peace has been selling 117 million LinkedIn credentials on the Dark web […]
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The growth of data storage space is one of the most remarkable adventures in technology. A cheap 64 GB storage device in your palm can hold 12,800 times more than the first consumer hard disk drive in 1980. If each photo amounts to 4 MB, then that 64 GB of silicon will hold 16384 photos. Enough to shoot nearly […]
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