A little over a week ago we reported on the fact that the Ubuntu Forums have been subjected to quite a large and unfortunately successful hack. Since then the Ubuntu Forums team have been working hard to not only restore service, but to bolster the sites security as well. What happened? Well, basically the hacker exploited a security flaw in vBulletin, the software that the Ubuntu Forums use. This... »
Over the course of the last 24 hours, internet security companies like Hostgator & CloudFlare have reported that there is a large scale, distributed WordPress botnet attack right across the internet. Looking at the reports from these companies, the WordPress botnet attack seems to be a simple dictionary brute-force attack that is aimed at the WordPress admin back-end. The aim is to gain access... »
Yesterday, Mat wrote a post on his personal blog about how he was recently hacked. The article itself makes for really interesting yet catastrophic reading (for Mat at least). Mat is an avid Apple user with an iPhone, iPad & Macbook and he uses iCloud to backup all his devices to the cloud. iCloud has a feature whereby you can remotely wipe your Apple device should it fall into the wrong hands... »
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