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NFL Players, Agents Targeted in Database Extortion Attempt

09
Oct
2017

A misconfigured database containing records belonging to 1,133 National Football League players and their agents was exposed via an unsecured Elasticsearch server. The database belongs to the NFL Players Association and includes the home address, phone numbers and IP addresses for hundreds of current and former players. Kromtech Security Center, which made the discovery on […]

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Meetup.com Battles DDoS Attacks

04
Mar
2014

The website Meetup.com is back online after a powerful distributed denial-of-service attack was launched against the site. The attack began Thursday when an attacker sent an extortion demand for $300 to Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman in an email. According to the CEO, the attack began simultaneously, overwhelming the site’s servers with traffic. “We got to […]

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