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A Famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest Victim of Hack Attack

2013-04-09/0 Comments/in Hack/by SecurityOrb_Staff

The world famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest victim of hacking and announced that they were hacked , Scribd says that they discovered and and blocked suspicious activity on Scribd’s network that appears to have been a deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users

Google Maps contest under privacy investigation in India

2013-04-08/0 Comments/in Privacy/by fdesir

An posting from NBC NEWS in the technology section about Google Maps contest under privacy investigation in India: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Police in India are investigating to determine whether U.S. Internet company Google Inc. violated rules in a competition that asked users to add information about their local areas for its online map services […]

A Famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest Victim of Hack Attack

2013-04-09/0 Comments/in Hack/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Google Maps contest under privacy investigation in India

2013-04-08/0 Comments/in Privacy/by fdesir

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A Famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest Victim of Hack Attack

2013-04-09/0 Comments/in Hack/by SecurityOrb_Staff

An interesting article from our partner at hackersnewsbullentin.com on Scribd being the latest victim of an attack:

The world-famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest victim of hacking and announced that they were hacked , Scribd says that they discovered and blocked suspicious activity on Scribd’s network that appears to have been a deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users

As Scribd 1% of our users were potentially compromised by this attack.

They have emailed every user whose password was compromised with the details of the situation and instruction for how they can reset the password.

For those users who did not receive the mail they are safe and if you want to check either you are hacked or not so you can check by below web tool:

http://www.scribd.com/password/check

No content, payment and sales-related data, or other information were accessed or compromised their Investigation Team said.

Data which has been compromised is:

Usernames
Emails
Encrypted passwords

Get more information at HackersNewsBulletin.com

Google Maps contest under privacy investigation in India

2013-04-08/0 Comments/in Privacy/by fdesir

An posting from NBC NEWS in the technology section about Google Maps contest under privacy investigation in India:

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Police in India are investigating to determine whether U.S. Internet company Google Inc. violated rules in a competition that asked users to add information about their local areas for its online map services after a government agency raised security concerns.

Google, which ran the “Mapathon” in India in February and March, said its aim was to make more local information accessible to all and that it did not break any laws.

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