by Mark Rudnitsky | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Data Breaches, Hacks, and Thefts
The Under Armour subsidiary MyFitnessPal has officially confirmed the theft of account data for over 150 million users. The MyFitnessPal Hack In February 2018, unknown actors accessed the protected data of MyFitnessPal (MFP), a fitness app owned by the sportswear...
by Mark Rudnitsky | Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Security Tools, Tips, and Techniques
So I’ve recently had to lock down a public-facing CentOS server. Always a fun process, as I’m sure you know. When all was said and done, I created a quick checklist for my next Linux server hardening project. I’m of course keeping it general;...
by Mark Rudnitsky | Mar 20, 2018 | Attacks, Blog
On February 28th, 2018, GitHub reported that it experienced the largest DDoS attack on record, with a maximum volume of 1.35Tbps. The GitHub Attack Process Many applications use a memory caching system called “memcached“. Administrators set up a memcached...
by Mark Rudnitsky | Mar 19, 2018 | Blog, Research
Researchers at Stanford recently published a paper exploring the harvesting of demographic information from an unlikely source: Google Street View. By using a method of deep learning called “Convolutional Neural Networks”, the researchers successfully...
by Mark Rudnitsky | Feb 15, 2018 | Attacks, Blog
Over the past few weeks, T-Mobile users have reported receiving strange texts warning them of “phone number port out scans”. What’s Happening at T-Mobile? T-Mobile has confirmed that they have been sending out texts warning their customer base of an...
