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BBC News  A massive database of Mexican voter records was made publicly accessible on the internet, a US security researcher has discovered. The names, addresses, dates of birth and voter ID numbers of 87 million Mexicans appeared to be listed in the cache. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud Service, said:...

Yahoo Tech  Yet another data breach has grabbed international headlines, and this one involves the voting registration records of some 93.4 million Mexican citizens. On April 14, Chris Vickery of MacKeeper discovered that he was able to access a tome of information, including names, birth dates, home addresses, ID numbers, and more,...

International Business Times A database reportedly containing roughly 93.4 million Mexican voter registration records was discovered on an Amazon cloud server without any password protection and includes everything from home addresses to ID numbers, a security researcher has disclosed."This is a significant breach, and what makes it worse is that...

CCR Magazine  To date, police have generally considered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to be a low-level crime. However, they are now starting to take them much more seriously. Alex Cruz Farmer,  our VP of cloud said: “Having dealt with the National High Tech Crime Unit in the past, now known...

Information Age Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are often quite unsophisticated, brute force attempts to disable a website or network by barraging it with traffic, but the damge they can do to victims can be considerable. To date, police have generally considered DDoS attacks to be a 'low level' crime,...

SC Magazine A new variant of malware has been discovered that uses DNS to evade antivirus measures, security researchers have warned. Dubbed Multigrain, the malware is a variant of the NewPoSThings family of malware. It infects Windows processes that process credit card data and collects financial information before sending it off...