Dropbox Those Passwords | Tech Talk Today 75
Posted on: October 14, 2014
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A batch of Dropbox usernames and passwords hit the web, Court document reveal Apple’s $50 Million for product leak fine & Newsweek comes under fire.
Plus our thoughts on the return of PC market growth & much more!
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Change Your Password: Hackers Are Leaking Dropbox User Info
After first surfacing Reddit, several Pastebin files have been found to contain hundreds of Dropbox users’ usernames and passwords—and the anonymous poster claims that there are millions more to come.
- According to the Next Web, the leaked lists are meant to entice users to donate Bitcoin, at which point the purported hacker will release more users’ info. The message atop the list reads:
Here is another batch of Hacked Dropbox accounts from the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts
To see plenty more, just search on [redacted] for the term Dropbox hack.
More to come, keep showing your support
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To put it another way: You need to change your password. Now. And then make sure that two-factor authentication is turned on.
Update 11:29pm:
- A spokesperson from Dropbox has provided us with the following statement:
Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.
Court document reveals that Apple could fine sapphire glass manufacturer $50 Million for product leaks
GT Advanced Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week and the court documents have revealed an interesting agreement with Apple. GT Advanced, who was contracted to make sapphire glass displays for Apple, stated that there was a clause in its contract that would see them fined upward of a $50 million (USD) penalty for any leaked products.
Man Pegged By Newsweek as Satoshi Nakamoto Plans Legal Action | NEWSBTC
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto’s name became public — very public — in a highly sensationalized exposé entitled The Face Behind Bitcoin _written by journalist Leah McGrath Goodman, employed by _Newsweek.
Legal defense fund
Nakamoto, along with the Kirschner & Associates law firm, have started a website at NewsweekLied.com to ask for donations to help establish a defense fund in an ultimate lawsuit against Newsweek.
Yes. Bitcoin accepted.
You can read all the reasons that Dorian is angry here on the site’s background page, and it’s perfectly understandable where he’s coming from.
“Newsweek must be held accountable for its reckless reporting,” the site reads.
With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online | WIRED
Today a group of privacy-focused developers plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign for Anonabox. The $45 open-source router automatically directs all data that connects to it by ethernet or Wifi through the Tor network, hiding the user’s IP address and skirting censorship. It’s also small enough to hide two in a pack of cigarettes.
Decline in PC Sales Starts to Slow; Largest Makers See Growth – NYTimes.com
IDC and Gartner on Wednesday released numbers on the worldwide demand for PCs that showed only a slight drop in demand, a distinct contrast to the trend of the last three years. This likely means, analysts said, that consumers may not be choosing tablets and smartphones over PCs to the same degree they had in the past. Soon, they said, the industry might see growth again.
It has come already for the biggest manufacturers. Companies like Lenovo, Hewlett- Packard and Dell all had good growth, particularly in a strong U.S. market.
In the United States, IDC said 17.3 million PCs were shipped, an increase of 4.3 percent from a year ago. Gartner put the number at 16.9 million, a rise of 4.2 percent. The top five companies were HP, Dell, Apple, Lenovo and Toshiba, both IDC and Gartner said.