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By Jimi Wikman
When personal information is exposed it is always bad, but when adult sites expose thousands of people personal information such as ID, nationality, home address, parents name, personal signature and even fingerprints (!), then that could lead to very bad things indeed. This is what was found on a S3 amazon bucket by the vpnMentor cybersecurity research team.
This leak has exposed the personal data and likeness of over 4,000 models among more than 875,000 files and has high-risk, real life implications for said models. Some are are old, others within the last weeks and the content is more than enough to steal someone's identity for identity theft.
The more severe implications however is that exposing information that can identify these models in detail is that it can lead to harassment or even life threatening situations. Among the exposed models are LGBTQ people and with around 70 countries still consider this a criminal offense it could lead to prison sentences or even murder.
It took the company several days to respond to the communication from vpnMentor and the response is not exactly what I would expect from a company that just illegally exposed information on thousands of people in their employment.
I sincerely hope that none of the people that had their information exposed come to any harm, emotionally or otherwise. I also hope that legal actions are taken towards this company for their negligence. Finally I hope this company hire someone to help them secure this kind of information so the people they employ can have their private data secured.
You can read the full post about this incident here.
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By Jimi Wikman
When personal information is exposed it is always bad, but when adult sites expose thousands of people personal information such as ID, nationality, home address, parents name, personal signature and even fingerprints (!), then that could lead to very bad things indeed. This is what was found on a S3 amazon bucket by the vpnMentor cybersecurity research team.
This leak has exposed the personal data and likeness of over 4,000 models among more than 875,000 files and has high-risk, real life implications for said models. Some are are old, others within the last weeks and the content is more than enough to steal someone's identity for identity theft.
The more severe implications however is that exposing information that can identify these models in detail is that it can lead to harassment or even life threatening situations. Among the exposed models are LGBTQ people and with around 70 countries still consider this a criminal offense it could lead to prison sentences or even murder.
It took the company several days to respond to the communication from vpnMentor and the response is not exactly what I would expect from a company that just illegally exposed information on thousands of people in their employment.
I sincerely hope that none of the people that had their information exposed come to any harm, emotionally or otherwise. I also hope that legal actions are taken towards this company for their negligence. Finally I hope this company hire someone to help them secure this kind of information so the people they employ can have their private data secured.
You can read the full post about this incident here.
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By Jimi Wikman
BitNinja is an all in one server security tool mixing the most powerful defence techniques. It is super-easy to install, requires virtually no maintenance. It is able to protect against 99% of automated attacks - like XSS, DDoS, malware, scans, script injection, CMS hacks, enumeration, brute force, etc.
Servers protected by BitNinja learn from each attack and inform each other about malicious IPs.
This result is a global defense network that counteracts botnet attacks with a shield of protection for all servers running BitNinja, while also reducing the number of false positives each server encounters
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