News about big hacks and the publication of user databases have slowed down considerably in past months. Before that reports of hacks were nearly daily in the news with companies like Sony, Gawker or Ashampoo the target. Many user databases that the hackers dumped during the hack were published on the Internet afterwards. Not all [...]
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Ashampoo Hacked, Watch Out For Fake Customer Emails
Popular software developer Ashampoo is currently emailing their customers about a recently discovered successful hack on one of their servers. The break-in had been discovered by Ashampoo, and the company interrupted it and closed the security gap that the hackers used to gain access. Unfortunately though, customer address data and email addresses were stolen by [...]
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11 things to do after a hack
Lets assume your system has been hacked. What steps would you undertake after the hacking attempt ? The article written at techtarget.com tries to answer the question and presents a checklist of things to do after being someone hacked into your system. Its more of a checklist for corporate networks than for individual computers but it would not hurt to take a look and probably get some new ideas that you did not think about.