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Synology Launches DS220+, DS420+, DS720+, and DS920+ NAS
Synology has today announced the launch of a new generation of two and four-bay Plus Series NAS, designed as a centralized data management solution for both home and business environments. The newly launched products include the; DS220+, DS420+, DS720+, and DS920+ NAS. Up to 133% faster in website responsiveness and…
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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaks Personal Info of Almost Entire US
340 Million Individual Records Exactis is not a company name many Americans are familiar with. However, judging by the size of the latest data leak discovered by security researchers, they certainly know many Americans. Exactis is a marketing data and aggregation firm, based out of Palm Coast, Florida. Researcher Vinny…
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RAWG.IO Lets Raptr Users Save Gameplay History
News of Raptr shutting down did not sit well with many gamers who were still using its service. The company posted a notice on their website written by founder Dennis “Thresh” Fong himself, announcing that they will be closing on September 30th, 2017. Those who use the service to track…
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Audit Reveals CalGang Database Contains Babies!?
We’ve all heard of the big government databases, tracking everything from our search history to the latest episode of Game of Thrones you watched illegally. Now it would seem that yet another database has come under question as an audit has found that a gang database is tracking all the…
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Ever Lose Thousands of Records to a Corrupt Database? The Air Force Did!
We’ve all been told the lesson, back up your files. In this day and age, we seem to forget to do this, given the generation of ransomware and malicious software that looks to do everything from stealing your bank account details to holding your system hostage. It would seem that…
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51 Million iMesh Account Details For Sale on Dark Web
It is becoming a worrying pattern that so many services’ user account details are emerging for sale online. Now iMesh joins the list of services which has a large number of their users’ account details for sale on the dark web, 51 million to be exact. iMesh may be defunct,…
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The FBI’s Databases Will Be Exempt From Privacy Protections
When it comes to your information, keeping it up to date and private are some of the most important things in an age where companies are hacked on a regular basis and trade with your information. What happens when that information isn’t being stored by a company but a government…
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Verizon Enterprise Breach Leads to 1.5 Million Customers Records Up For Sale
It’s not been a good year for Verizon. Earlier this month we reported on the fact that the company had been fined by the FCC for “supercookie” tracking, and now it would seem that Verizon Enterprise has been breached resulting in 1.5 million customer records being put up for sale.…
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Denver Police Caught Using Database For Personal Gain
In this day and age, we like to think that our information is well protected. We know that isn’t always true though with companies like TalkTalk and even children’s toy company VTech having their data exposed in hacks. So what about the people who have access to our information? Well, it…
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Microsoft Bringing SQL Database Software To Linux
Microsoft is well-known for three things, their hardware (such as the Microsoft Surface series), their operating systems and their software. The problem being is that a lot of these are closely tied together, their hardware uses their operating system and normally come pre-installed with their software. You can get their operating…
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Child Tracking Firm uKnowKids Accuses Security Researcher of Hacking
Digital security is important in this day and age, with access from across the world to your information meaning not only you can access all that information. With big companies like TalkTalk finding out the hard way that even a single breach can cause your company untold harm to both…
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Patent Troll to Pay Legal Fees
Patents are legal pieces of documentation to say that you are the creator or mind behind an idea or design, they are kinda like copyright although they can be a wider range of things such as the concept behind a piece of technology, rather than the exact components and designs…
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Wetherspoons Reveals Extent Of Hack
From phone calls made to and from prisons, to the details of thousands of children and their parents, hacks seem to be everywhere and are affecting everyone these days. The latest one to reveal they’ve been hacked is JD Wetherspoons, the popular pub chain. Revealing that its old website was…
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