article thumbnail

On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Malwarebytes

Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. 2004 was a key year for several safety activities, encompassing both Safer Internet Day and the Safer Internet Forum. Was the general state of the Internet at the time so bad that all of these events sprang up almost out of necessity? You may be asking, why 2004?

article thumbnail

Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

Malwarebytes

In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo! None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. Like its nearest US equivalent, Amazon, the company also runs cloud services, a payment service (Alipay), and is active in digital media.

B2B 68
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

Krebs on Security

Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. Mr. Mirza declined to respond to questions, but the exposed database information was removed from the Internet almost immediately after KrebsOnSecurity shared the offending links. Postal Service are breaking federal law,” the joint USPS-FTC statement said. com , postaljobscenter[.]com

Marketing 267
article thumbnail

Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. AllegisCyber Capital.