500px Hacked?

I didn't get an email… I found out from 500px's official Twitter account

1/2 PLEASE NOTE: We recently learned of a potential security issue and have taken every precaution to ensure our users' data is safe. There is no indication of unauthorized account access, but as a precautionary measure, we a...
13th Feb 2019

Black Boxes

Meant to protect us...

The preamble of the draft bill reads:

The purpose of this draft bill is to grant Military Intelligence a new remit consisting of ensuring the cyber defence of the Czech Republic. For this purpose, the amendment to the Military Intelligence Act will allow it to use technica...

11th Feb 2019

Kompromitace webu

I got an email...

It said the following,

Dear support portal user,

as you may have noticed, our portal has been unavailable. We identified an unknown party's attempt to breach the Flowmon's support portal yesterday. As a part of the internal security process, we took the portal offline.

Whil...

1st Feb 2019

Filing a Tax Return Online

It's not exactly comfortable, but it works!

Circumstances forced my hand — I have to file my own tax return for last year. Because I have a Data Box, I must do it electronically. Filing a tax return isn't particularly complicated: add up a few numbers, put them in the right boxes, done.

What...

29th Jan 2019

Data Box Password

Not like this…

The data box system got a new look. And with that they also dropped the CAPTCHA verification on login. My primary goal was to send my tax return, but I had an expired password. So: log in, change it, send. Except... I generated a password in my password manager, entered it in th...

28th Jan 2019
Collection #1

Collection #1

The biggest leak yet... of usernames and credentials.

I was curious what's actually in the largest collection of leaked data so far — Collection #1. I downloaded just under 40 GB of data. After extraction it came to just under 100 GB. I fired up Splunk and started indexing. It took almost the enti...

17th Jan 2019