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Staminus Hack – Daily Security Byte EP. 230

March 14, 2016 By Corey Nachreiner

Thursday, a company that offers Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection had their network go down, which affected the web sites of their customers. Turns out, a hacktivist group had breached their organization, and stolen a ton of data. Watch Friday’s Daily Security Byte to learn how you can avoid the mistakes that lead to the Staminus breach.

(Episode Runtime: 2:43)

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVzdQ42SJWw

EPISODE REFERENCES:

  • Brian Krebs covers the Staminus data breach – Krebs on Security
  • FTA’s e-zine bragging about the hack – Hastebin
  • KKK’s site affected by the Staminus hack – The Next Web
  • Reddit post discussing the Staminus breach – Reddit

— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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Filed Under: Security Bytes Tagged With: data leak, FTA, Hacking, Infosec news, Security breach, Software vulnerabilities, Staminus

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  1. [email protected] says

    March 14, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    We have not been a WatchGuard customer for years, but keep receiving these. Your Unsubscribe link takes you to a WordPress page which is totally useless. Please unsubscribe [email protected] from any future mailings of any type.

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    • Corey Nachreiner says

      March 14, 2016 at 1:29 pm

      First, sorry you want to unsubscribe. Whether you’re a WatchGuard customer or not, my goal is for the blog to share security stories that any IT person could gain practical value from. That said, I’m more than happy to help you figure out how to unsubscribe.

      The subscription to this blog is actually through Feedburner. I don’t have a list of users directly, rather, feedburner manages sending the RSS emails to people. To be honest, I’m not quite sure what the FeedBurner unsubscribe process is, but I’ll go ahead and get my web guys to look into it, and get back to you. If we can unsubscribe you directly, we will, otherwise I’ll get back to you with what you need to do on feedburner.

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    • Corey Nachreiner says

      March 14, 2016 at 1:46 pm

      You should be removed now.

      Reply

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