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Public Service Announcement: LinkedIn Spear Phishing Attempts

07

Jun

2012

As to be expected new spear phishing attempts are being released into the wild to capitalize on yesterday’s LinkedIn breech. Its too be expected as its to big of an opportunity to pass up on. We expect similar attempts for the similar breech at eHarmony. Read more on opportunistic attacks. This is what it looks […]

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LinkedIn and eHarmony passwords databases leaked

07

Jun

2012

Yesterday, password databases from two popular websites were leaked in an underground forum popular with computer hackers. 6.5 million passwords from LinkedIn and a further 1.5 million passwords from internet dating site eHarmony were divulged following attacks on these sites. LinkedIn has already acknowledged the leak, and have said they are changing the algorithm for […]

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LinkedIn Password Dump Verified

07

Jun

2012

As you might imagine we couldn’t contain ourselves this morning when we heard of the LinkedIn compromise and had to go searching for the dump. We were able to get our hands on a copy of the password hashes, totaling 6,500,000 unique passwords. From that we were able to see that about 2,000,000 had been […]

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