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Leave the Internet Archive alone! – Computerworld
When he founded the Archives in 1996, his ambitious goal was to provide “universal access to all knowledge.” Kahle and his friends have been remarkably successful. Today, the Archives holds digital copies of 44 million books and texts, 15 million audio recordings, 10.6 million videos, 4.8 million images, a million software programs, and even a copy of Computerworld from 1969. To do…
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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, BleepingComputer has received numerous messages from people who received replies to their old Internet Archive removal requests, warning that the organization has been breached as they did not correctly rotate their stolen…
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The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks. The Internet Archive is now back online in a…
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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. “Have you ever felt like…
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Microsoft to archive unlicensed OneDrive business accounts, charge reactivation fee – Computerworld
First, admins can generate a report via the SharePoint admin center to identify any such accounts across their organization. These reports — which display information such as username, email address, account type and the date of last activity on the account –—will be widely available beginning this Friday, Aug. 16. Once unlicensed accounts have been tracked down, they can be…
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