Job Search Site Monster Hacked; 1.6 Million User Records Stolen

May 13th, 2009 Former Monster COO convicted of stock option fraudNEW YORK — The former president and chief operating officer of Monster Worldwide has been convicted in New York of wrongfully backdating millions of dollars' worth of employee stock option grants. A jury on Tuesday found James Treacy of Glen Rock, N.J., guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, filing false reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, making false statements to auditors and falsifying books and records.

October 1st, 2006 I was pleasantly surprised to find Bobby Henderson, founder of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Venganza.org) adopting Translator Pro plugin for his highly popular site promoting Pastafarianism, an equally plausible alternative to "Intelligent Design", which is a thinly veiled attempt to introduce Biblical creationism in schools. His open letter to Kansas school board is classical in humor and highly effective in purpose.

June 3rd, 2008 How MySpace Accounts Get Hacked This video shows how MySpace accounts gets hacked. The modus operandi is simple: 1.

February 28th, 2005 Bank of America said yesterday that it had lost computer backup tapes containing personal information about 1.2 million federal employees, including some senators, with Visa charge cards issued by the bank. The tapes were lost in shipment.

March 10th, 2009 Are you one of those Telegraph subscribers? You must have known by know that the online website of British UK newspaper Telegraph has been hacked. The proofs in Hackersblog confirm that the site has been hacked by Romanian whitehat hacking group.

March 10th, 2006 Text-Link-Ads provide links on websites. It appears it has been hacked.

April 12th, 2005 An investigation by the firm's Anglo-Dutch parent Reed Elsevier determined that its databases had been fraudulently breached 59 times using stolen passwords, leading to the possible theft of personal information such as addresses and Social Security numbers. This is the second biggest breach after Bank of America incident.

August 9th, 2006 Recently AOL released 20 million web search queries, over a period of three months, from 650, 000 AOL search engine users. The data anonymizes user identity by assigning them numerical id.

November 4th, 2005 I realized that all my feeds in artima have been, without my knowledge, replaced with a sedo site, a domain squatter, with my domain name as a query in their script. Either they have hacked into my Artima account or they found some loophole in Artima site which they exploited to increase their page rank and effectively disabling all my feeds.

November 8th, 2006 Yesterday I received an often asked question from a close friend of mine and someone who I very much respect. In his words: My new company has an existing system that I am rewriting.

August 10th, 2006 The US Department of Transportation has announced that a Dell laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. The information on the missing laptop included people in Miami-Dade County who hold commercial drivers licenses, Florida residents who have pilot's licenses and people who got their Florida drivers licenses from a facility in Largo, Fla.

February 23rd, 2008 I recently came across an instance of Google Proxy hacking with one of my clients, which removed his index page and other pages from SERP (Search Engine Ranking & Positioning) and he lost the page ranks (went down to zero). We were asked to protect his site against Google Proxy hacking, a really dangerous technique which can not only cause you to loose page rank but also remove your pages from SERP, all because Google cannot properly identify original pages from duplicates.

September 3rd, 2006 A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in the US.

July 19th, 2006 I am intrigued by OpenDNS business model. OpenDNS is a startup which offers DNS service to any user accessing the internet.

September 24th, 2007 A simple google search reveals over 55.5 million pages are generated using WordPress today. The WordPress search volume shows a healthy increase over time as can be seen from the graph.