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Personal note - jobs section?

I'm thinking of adding a security-related jobs section to the newsletter, with two jobs each week and maybe a longer listing on the website. If you have any kind of feedback on this, or open positions you might want to submit, hit reply and let me know.

Dieter Van der Stock

Breaches and leaks

  • The Bulgarian tax authority has been hacked, and data on practically all Bulgarian citizens was exfiltrated: link.
  • Sprint, the US telecom, had a breach impacting an unknown number of users through a Samsung.com "Add a line" advertisement website. I'm not super clear if they ran the site or Samsung did? link.
  • An unsecured Elasticsearch instance was found containing financial, personal and location data on millions of Chinese users, aggregated from loan-applying apps: link.
  • Bitpoint, a Japan-based crypto exchange, lost $32 million in a hack last week: link.
  • Netlog, a Belgian-based social network that has been gone for a few years, discovered that they were hacked back in 2012: link (pdf).
Dieter Van der Stock









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