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533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Leaked On Hacker Forum The mobile phone numbers and other personal information for approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The stolen data first surfaced on a hacking community in June 2020 when a member began selling the Facebook data to
Most Loved Programming Language Rust Sparks Privacy Concerns Rust developers have repeatedly raised concerned about an unaddressed privacy issue over the last few years. Rust has rapidly gained momentum among developers, for its focus on performance, safety, safe concurrency, and for having a similar syntax to C++. StackOverflow’s 2020 developer survey ranked Rust first among the “most loved programming languages.” However, for the longest time
Ransomware Gang Leaks Data From Stanford, Maryland Universities Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. The threat actors obtained the documents after hacking the universities’ Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software used to share and store sensitive information.
Microsoft Outage Caused By Overloaded Azure DNS Servers Microsoft has revealed that Thursday’s worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries. At approximately 5:21 PM EST on Thursday, Microsoft experienced a global outage that prevented users from accessing or signing