Interesting new twist on the Snowden NSA GCHQ
hacking story - it was the Russian Mafia all along!
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=167905#167905
Questions about Hold Security's motives
<http://mashable.com/2014/08/08/does-it-even-matter-if-1-2-billion-passwords-were-stolen/>http://mashable.com/2014/08/08/does-it-even-matter-if-1-2-billion-pass
words-were-stolen/
Why? Well, that's largely because of the way Hold
Security disclosed this information thus far.
Almost as soon as the New York Times article went
live, journalists at Forbes and The Wall Street
Journal, pointed out that Hold Security is will
let users (presumably, web services) find out if
their data was part of the breach for just $120 a year.
Using a security threat to sell products and
services is something that security companies do
all the time. It's how the security game works.
The problem for some members of the security community, however, is twofold.
The Russian 'hack of the century' doesn't add up
By Russell Brandom on August 6, 2014 09:32 am Email @russellbrandom
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5973729/the-problem-with-the-new-york-times-biggest-hack-ever>http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5973729/the-problem-with-the-new-york
-times-biggest-hack-ever
Yesterday, The New York Times dropped an
exclusive account of what reporter Nicole
Perlroth called "the biggest hack ever." By the
numbers it certainly held up: 1.2 billion
accounts, covering 500 million unique email
addresses over 420,000 websites. The data had
been captured by a Russian hacker group called
CyberVor, and revealed by Hold Security. But as
the smoke clears, the hack seems to be less of a
criminal masterwork than the article might have you believe.
HOLD SECURITY IS ALREADY CAPITALIZING ON THE PANIC
The biggest problem, as Forbes's Kashmir Hill and
The Wall Street Journal's Danny Yadron have
noted, is that Hold Security is already
capitalizing on the panic, charging a
$120-per-year subscription to anyone who wants to
check if their name and password are on the list.
Hold says it's just trying to recoup expenses,
but there's something unseemly about stoking
fears of cybercrime and then asking concerned
citizens to pay up. It also gives Hold a clear
incentive to lie to reporters about how large and significant the finding is.
Of course, facts are still facts, but even the
hard data here is a little strange. If the idea
of hacking 1.2 billion usernames sounds
incredible, it should. There are just a handful
of services with over a billion users - Facebook,
Google Search, and Microsoft Office lead the pack
- and if any of those were involved, Hold
wouldn't be shy about saying so. Instead, this
data comes from hundreds of thousands of
compromises over the course of months. Comparing
it to breaches like Adobe or Target, as Perlroth
does repeatedly, simply doesn't make sense.
Over 1.6B passwords stolen by Russian crime gang
By Debra KillaleaAugust 6, 2014 | 12:56am
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Over 1.6B passwords stolen by Russian crime gang
<http://nypost.com/2014/08/06/over-1-6b-passwords-stolen-by-russian-crime-gang/>http://nypost.com/2014/08/06/over-1-6b-passwords-stolen-by-russian-crime-gang/
More than 1.6 billion internet username and
password combinations have been stolen by a
Russian crime gang in a massive security breach.
US security firm Hold Security revealed
confidential material had been gathered from more
than 500 million email addresses and 420,000 websites.
The hackers targeted both big and small websites
across the globe, The New York Times reported.
Hold Security has not named the companies which
have been targeted as their sites remained "vulnerable".
However another security expert who analysed the
stolen credentials told The Times the breach was authentic.
It is understood some larger companies are aware
their records were among the stolen information.
Founder and chief information security officer of
Hold Security Alex Holden said the breach was
massive and wasn't confined just to the US.
"Hackers did not just target US companies, they
targeted any website they could get, ranging from
Fortune 500 companies to very small websites," he said.
"And most of these sites are still vulnerable."
The breach has sparked warnings for users to step
up their password security details to avoid having their information stolen.
IT security and risk management solutions Sense
of Security chief operating officer Murray
Goldschmidt said this incident was evidence that
users needed to be more vigilant when it came to
protecting their personal information.
Mr. Goldschmidt said while it wasn't known
exactly what companies were yet affected, it was
a wise idea to change and update passwords
regularly, irrespective of this hack.
He added people using shared passwords and
credentials across various networks and sites
were most at risk of having their information compromised.
"If even one of these passwords are compromised,
it's like a domino effect," he told news.com.au.
He said users were at risk of being affected by
the hack due to our high use of overseas websites.
"[Users] are frequently engaged in using
international websites ... so by virtue of being on
the internet, there is a risk of credentials being accessed," he said.
Mr. Goldschmidt advised users to change passwords
which are shared and to use strong passwords
which had a combination of numbers and letters.
He also said changing them regularly also
lessened the risk of vital information being compromised.
It wouldn't be the first time web users have been
affected by a massive security breach.
In May, online giant eBay warned customers to
change their passwords after cyber attackers broke into its databases.
Its database was compromised which "included eBay
customers' name, encrypted password, email
address, physical address, phone number and date of birth".
However, financial information or other
confidential personal information was not affected.
And in 2012 social network LinkedIn suffered a
massive security breach which resulted in the
loss of up to millions of encrypted passwords,
which could allow hackers to break into subscribers accounts.
The hacked passwords were first posted to a
Russian hackers forum, Norway-based tech blog.
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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