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do you the impact team support yes man

We have no idea who that is. We are still digging through these files so we’ll let you know.

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The Ashley Madison Fiasco

The Ashley Madison Fiasco #ExtortionAttempts #InternetSecuity #MoralHighGround

Don’t fall victim to the extortionists or the self-described morality police. By Kennedy Jones (PHD) (HALIFAX, NS) – Extreme Right Morality of the Impact Team. The Christian Right, radical feminists, Bulgarian gangsters, or perhaps a singular rogue, morally lapsed person has managed to make a mockery of internet security by leaking a database of Ashley Madison users to some post, in its own…

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Adultery website hacked 36 million members

AshleyMadison.com, a website for husbands, wives looking for “partners” affair, has been hacking group The Impact Team Attack.

After being attacked, the names, addresses and sexual orientation of about 37 million users and website owners AshleyMadison.com use may be made public. Avid Life Media, the company that runs the website with the slogan “Life is short, let’s adultery,” said the hacker group had access to their system and is cooperating with the police to investigate.

According to Krebs on Security blog security, an individual or group calling itself The Impact Team has claimed responsibility for the attack and published the map server company, employee information, bank account. In a message on the home page AshleyMadison, hackers threaten public all the information stolen unless and EstablishedMen.com website, a site connecting young women with men, was closed.

The message left on the homepage hacker AshleyMadison.com

“We will launch all customer records with the story secret sex, nudity, the conversations, the credit card transactions, real names and addresses of customers. Avid Life Media shall have liability for fraud and serious harm to millions of customers, “the hacker wrote.

Although the company has sealed the security holes and delete hacker warnings as well as information about the user, these actions have little effect if the hacker was able to transfer the data to another location. Rik Turner, an analyst at research firm Ovum, evaluate it makes AshleyMadison customers fall into dilemmas with your partner if information was made public.

“For God’s sake, if you cheat, do not do on the network and to open ourselves. Unless you’re living in a cave the past few years and do not read newspapers or television signal reception, it is clear everything can be hacked “.

Avid Life is proclaimed AshleyMadison dating sites pay the world’s second largest with 36 million members. 4/2015 In May, the company said it was considering “on the floor” London Stock Exchange (UK) to fund expanding international market after the failure in Canada.

2014, AshleyMadison grossing $ 115 million, up almost 4 times compared with 2009. Brokerage Website levy to introduce the “partners” committed adultery with one another. Avid Life had client apologized for recent security incidents and committed to make the security information to the forefront.

According to Krebs, the hacker said the reason they conducted the attack because it is difficult to remove from the website the user profile. For about $ 20, new AshleyMadison perform so-called “completely erase” information of a person. However, hacker website confirming transaction details remain, their name and address.

In emails released on 20/7, Avid Life denies hacker and that option has been removed essentially erase all information related to records and membership activities. However, after this attack, the website will offer free option for deleting whole any user.

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[technofiles]

Week 08.24-30: Cybersecurity

Tor, Ashley Madison and Win10 dominated the news, it was a pretty exciting week.

But first

According to the federal appeals court, the Federal Trade Commission can now sue companies with lousy security. It’s incredible that it took such a long time: we trust companies with our information and so far there was no avenue to reprimand them. Finally.

And it’s not just the US who is now getting the memo that half of our lives are online: in the UK the Advertising Standards Authority reprimanded a children’s website for using peer pressure.

The Technology Review put together the biggest information breaches, á la Ashley Madison. It’s yummy! Part 1, part 2

At&T hotspots inject advertising. Gross business practice.

Ars has a great article on how quantum key distribution - which can make communication really safe - will happen via reflective satellites.

In a weirdly lucky coincidence, The Verge run a piece about a study on advertising malware days before Google announced that from September it will stop playing flash ads in Chrome.

Dubbed "malvertising," the attacks typically sneaking malicious ads onto far-reaching ad networks. The networks deliver those malware-seeded ads to popular websites, which pass them along to a portion of the visitors to the site. The attacks typically infect computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash, typically triggered as soon as an ad is successfully loaded.

Google urges everyone to convert their Flash ads to HTML5.

Doc Searls has an excellent article on Apple and the adblock. iOS 9 will allow extensions that can stop tracking-based advertising, by blocking cookies. It’s a genius move, especially that Apple’s new app, News is coming to town with their own ad-publisher, iAd. Which means if advertisers will want to reach the highly profitable Apple users, they will need to go to them directly.

TOR

Ars reported a month ago on a vulnerability, using which attackers can have a 88% success rate in identifying server locations. Agora, the new Silk Road temporarily shut down.

BITTORRENT

Some genius figured out how one person can DDOS with the help of a vulnerable Bittorrent app, than it was patched. How amazing is Bittorrent for patching it and not waiting until it becomes a problem?

ASHLEY MADISON

It’s so much fun reading about the AM hack and take a quick, self-righteous shower in the Schadenfreude, until you realize that the site actually ruins lives, not to mention the hack. Yes, Avid Life Media had terrible business practices, the CEO Noel Biderman is slimy, and cheaters have little integrity, but this can never be the reason to jump on a high horse and trample over their lives.

This week, it turned out Avid Life Media hacked into a competitor’s user database, then ALM offered $500,000 for any information on Impact Team, the hacker(s?) claiming responsibility for the attack (Brian Krebs has an idea). Class action lawsuits have already been launched, and ALM is meanwhile trying to (ab)use DCMA requests to take down sites popping up with queriable databases. (Don’t, under any circumstances, download the data, it can have consequences.)

WINDOWS 10

After just a month of availability, Win10 is on 75 M computers, even though it’s privacy settings are simply terrible. I know that this is an abused line, but If you are not paying for it, you really become the product. Microsoft did go around it in a pretty brazen way, too, by getting users to agree to their privacy policy while installing the software. Unless you go to advanced and click it out, Microsoft will gather your location, browser history, and pretty much everything you do online. In a really creepy way, it can also disable pirated games, software or hacked hardware - because you agree to the software to make changes when installing it.

This is, of course, more than a little scary. Is this the future, that your operating system will one day just send the contents of your local disk to a company’s server? The iTS tracker has already banned Win10, so if users can’t torrent, there’s your reason.

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The Fallout Continues...and there is more to come. Ashley Madison won't Stop.

The Fallout Continues…and there is more to come. Ashley Madison won’t Stop.

One more post on Ashley Madison and then I am taking a break from the subject.

You can read about the Ashley Madison hack here and what it means and doesn’t mean here.

What is still developing are the ramifications from the hack and the disclosure of private information.

It’s been reported that there have been suicides due to person’s private information being leaked. There have been public…

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Deceptive and inadequate data security was the ultimate sin of adultery site Ashley Madison.

Last week, a hacktivist group called the Impact Team made good on earlier threats to expose the personal data of millions of users of the online adultery service Ashley Madison. Much of the public discussion so far has revolved around the ethics of "doxing," the harm dealt to blameless children or guilty adults living in authoritarian regimes, and the worryingly high numberof  blackmail-susceptible .gov and .mil email addresses used to register accounts. But to frame the Ashley Madison hack as primarily a run-of-the-mill morality tale is to miss the urgent message about our own online lives: Our data is fundamentally insecure, and it is only a matter of time until our own digital habits—innocent though we believe them—catch up to us. If they haven’t already.

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Former Toronto Lawyer Founder of Infidelity Site, Ashley Madison

Former Toronto Lawyer Founder of Infidelity Site, Ashley Madison

Noel Biderman’s corporate slogan is “Life is short, have an affair”, although he says that personally he does not subscribe to his company’s philosophy.

A graduate of Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School, Biderman says he saw an opportunity after he noticed all the “sexual partner wanted” ads on Craigslist, and realized over 30% of the men and women on the list were married or otherwise “attached”.

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