I have alarming visions of a hacker
somewhere saying, “So, you steal all our nuclear, military,
scientific and business secrets do you? I'm going to retaliate! All
your games are belong to us!”
Hacks
of Chinese gaming sites may have affected 38,000,000
December 22, 2011 by admin
C. Custer writes:
Yesterday, the
Chinese internet was shaken by the news that IT portal and community
CDSN has been hacked and data for its more than six million users had
been stolen, including usernames and passwords. Today, reports have
it that CDSN wasn’t the only site affected.
Duowan, a games
site, was hacked and hackers stole the data of its over eight million
users. 7K7K, also a gaming site, reportedly lost data for 20 million
users, and hackers also got info from 10 million accounts by hacking
178.com, another game site.
[...]
Actually, aside
from the CDSN hack, none of the other hacks have been officially
confirmed yet; however, much of the stolen account information has
been published online (see, for example, the image of Duowan
usernames and passwords above), so the reports appear to be fairly
accurate. This certainly appears to be very bad news for Chinese net
users — and gamers in particular — but we’ll keep an eye on
this and update once more has come to light.
Source: Penn-Olson.com
38,000,000? This has been an
incredibly bad year for gamers’ information security.
None of the sites appear to have any
breach notifications on their home pages at this time.
A beautiful infographic, showing the
relative size of 2011 breaches...
Data
loss incidents in 2011
Not every hack makes sense. Perhaps
this one was done by some evil/geeky ornithologist?
Hacking
a turducken? Seriously, folks?
December 22, 2011 by admin
LordKaT.com posted a curious message to
members last week that they should change their passwords. It begins:
If you have an
account on this site, you should change your password. Why?
Something strange
happened on the site this morning. Our Turducken is
Tasty, Tuesday Tech Talk, and How to Do It videos were removed from
the site, along with a forum post about Battlemaster.
Nothing else
appears to have been changed, but logs were truncated due to SQL
server performance issues. So, we can’t exactly pinpoint what
happened via Drupal.
We can’t
pinpoint what happened via server logs either. There doesn’t
appear to be any red flags in our server logs. SQL doesn’t appear
to have been compromised, and there’s no evidence of the database
being downloaded.
[...]
The database
contains your: username, hashed and salted password, e-mail address,
and any other additional information you provided in your profile.
Read more on LordKaT
French law is different, but technology
should be the same. What kind of technical expert failed to prove
that you could target specific emails?
FR:
Appeal court authorizes seizure of entire electronic mailbox contents
December 22, 2011 by Dissent
Joseph Vogel writes:
Two undertakings
that were subject to investigatory searches by the Competition
Authority have complained of the mass undifferentiated seizure of
their electronic mailboxes. The mailboxes contained items unrelated
to the investigation, including personal and private emails and
correspondence with the undertakings’ lawyers.
According
to the Competition Authority, the current state of IT techniques and
the constraints inherent in the search and seizure procedure allow
for only the entire contents of company electronic mailboxes to be
seized. The authority held that attempting to extract
only certain elements would paralyse the investigation for weeks and
would affect the integrity of the data extracted.(1)
The mere fact that the mailboxes contained
certain elements that might be used as evidence of the alleged
actions was justification for their integral seizure. The
first president of the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed this view,
finding in the first case(2)
that the administrative authorities had convincingly
dispelled the arguments put forward by the expert engaged by the
undertakings, who had attempted to demonstrate that it was possible
to extract only certain items from mailboxes. The Court of Cassation
recently upheld the principle of the seizure of the entire contents
of a mailbox on the basis that its items allegedly cannot be seized
separately, and considered that the court which reviewed the
operations had not been required to appoint experts to find
alternative techniques for the seizure of such documents.(3)
Read more on International
Law Office
Looks like I concentrated on the right
stuff after all. HTML5, CSS and image/sound/video content.
"According
to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the
internet's most popular destinations, the average size of a single
web page is now
965 kilobytes, up more than 30% from last year's average of
702KB. This rapid growth is fairly normal for the internet — the
average web page was 14KB in 1995, 93KB by 2003, and 300KB in 2008 —
but by burrowing a little deeper into HTTP Archive's recent data, we
can discern some interesting trends. Between 2010 and 2011, the
average amount of Flash content downloaded stayed exactly the same —
90KB — but JavaScript experienced massive growth from 113KB to
172KB. The amount of HTML, CSS, and images on websites also showed a
significant increase year over year. There is absolutely no doubt
that these trends are attributable to the death throes of Flash and
emergence of HTML5 and its open web cohorts."
If you have a personal home page, how
big is it?
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