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LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken

Leon Neal | Getty Images reader comments 110 with Share this story Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers. Although… Read More »

DDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks more potent

Getty Images reader comments 71 with 54 posters participating Share this story Distributed denial-of-service attackers have seized on a new vector for amplifying the junk traffic they lob at targets to take them offline: end users or networks using the Plex Media Server. DDoS amplification is a technique that leverages the resources of an intermediary… Read More »