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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityU.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months
U.S. federal investigators are purportedly looking into a security breach at Codecov, a platform used to test software code with more 29,000 customers worldwide, Reuters reported on Saturday. The company has confirmed the breach and stated that it went undetected for months. According to Reuters, the breach has affected an unknown number of the company’s … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsYour Travel Guide to the Rudderless Right-Wing Web After Trump
Moving into 2021 and forward, conservatives angry about “cancel culture,” censorship, shadowbans, or the attention of the FBI have a rich array of social destinations to choose from. We’ve prepped a travel guide for the unwitting observer who might be thinking of checking any of these conspicuous and lesser-known internet hellholes out—whether it’s to keep … Continued
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Tech NewsGoDaddy: Sorry We Promised Holiday Bonuses, That Was Just a Phishing Test
GoDaddy decided that December would be a great time to test whether its employees are staying alert when it comes to cybersecurity threats. At a time when its staff is trying to navigate a holiday season hobbled by a pandemic and an ailing economy, the web hosting giant sent a phishing email with an offer … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityAttackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services
Roughly one year after a data breach at GoDaddy compromised 28,000 customer accounts, the world’s largest internet domain registrar is once again at the center of a security scandal. Hackers brought down several cryptocurrency services using GoDaddy domains in recent weeks, and apparently the company’s own staff unwittingly helped in these attacks. Hackers purportedly duped … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityGoDaddy Was Apparently Hacked Last Year, So Check Your Hosting Account Credentials
If you have a domain through GoDaddy, you might want to take a minute to reset your password and PIN and enable two-factor authentication if you haven’t already. The domain registrar and web hosting company has been hacked, says Threat Post. According to the California Attorney General, GoDaddy submitted the breach report on May 3—just … Continued
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Tech NewsHow I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up. While eating lunch … Continued
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Tech NewsHere’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl Commercial with a Supermodel Kissing a Nerd
Because the Super Bowl brings out the sleaziest in GoDaddy (no small feat!), its commercial is always water cooler fodder the Monday after Super Bowl. So get this: supermodel Bar Refaeli making out with uber-nerd (and extraordinary extra) Jesse Heiman because that sells websites. Of course Danica Patrick makes an appearance in the commercial (she’s … Continued
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What’s Your Favorite Site Affected by the GoDaddy Outage?
In case you’ve been living under a rock, GoDaddy was the victim of an attack which took everything down today. Anonymous is claiming responsibility for the attack and million of sites are unaccessible as a result. Surely some of the sites you read use GoDaddy for your internet hosting purposes. Which makes me curious: which … Continued
