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Title: Russian Gang's Credentials Theft Exposes Web's Wild, Wild West Side Post by: HCK on August 12, 2014, 09:00:24 pm Russian Gang's Credentials Theft Exposes Web's Wild, Wild West Side
News that a Russian gang has stockpiled more than a billion purloined user name and password combinations has revved up the Internet's reputation as a post industrial Wild, Wild West. Just how much havoc will be raised by the gang remains to be seen. The data thieves so far appear content to use their ill-gotten trove for spamming, according to Hold Security, which discovered the credential cache. Source: Russian Gang's Credentials Theft Exposes Web's Wild, Wild West Side (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80877.html?rss=1) |