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So this Internet of Things (iOT) is pretty creepy.  I remember seeing fridges with internet connectivity many years ago and I was MEH!  that's idiotic about that then, and even moreso today. With the constant screen time most of society already has, who needs more e-garbage to chatter on the...

The hacking of LinuxMint's site is yet another example of why lazy idiots who are running outdated WordPress installs with multiple critical vulnerabilities need to update their sites regularly (hosting industry examples are blog.colocrossing.com WP v3.5.1, lowendbox v 4.3.1, Quadranet CEO's...

Catching up on email pile (I read email monthly it seems): Dated December 24th.  Looks authentic.

3.3 Sanrio 'customers', fans of Hello Kitty have had their data hacked and put out in public. Reminder to those you with children and young ones in your circle to create fake accounts for online use.  Fake name, fake location, wrong age, etc. Source...

Background We covered the original Arvixe acquisition by publicly traded hosting giant Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EIGI) last November: "On October 31, 2014, the Company acquired Arvixe, a California-based web presence provider to small and...

The full story can be read here: http://www.hakspek.com/security/46-7-million-stolen-from-networking-firm-ubiquiti-in-unidentified-hack/ It appears their finance department was specifically targetted and that staff fell victim to phishing attacks in which they gave up account information that...

IRS is confessing that its "customers" were scammed by hackers. More than 100,000 taxpayers info was disclosed to hackers / organized criminals. Here's to a ruined future to the 100k likely credit dependent folks just hit...

Ongoing Lowendtalk.com thread worth noting: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/42912/hostrail-budgetgeek-info It involves mtwiscool (who is banned from there and vpsBoard) and issues involving his company. Alleged his WHMCS database has been dumped. Heads up since usually when this happens...

Craigslist down, been hacked.

Another RootLevel owned company sent out an email earlier.   They've been hacked, compromised, etc. and nodes were wiped... Be aware.

Information has been swirling about ChicagoVPS, and SolusVM for the past two months roughly. As some will recall, ChicagoVPS blamed Solus in the past for their hacks, and subsequent database dumps of CVPS' Solus information to the public. See: ; and...

Just got a shocking news from our neighbor that psychz.net, yardvps.com, photonvps.com, got hacked.  At the moment the three websites are still showing the hacked page.

More fallout from using WHMCS, another hacked host: