Tales of Cybersecurity
In the last years, Cybersecurity history becomes part of modern history and it’s important we know it, to understand how to be protected on the web and how to build safe systems.
In this article, I want to highlight stories about cybersecurity, and what we can learn from them.
Ashley Madison data breach
It’s a dating website for married/engaged people. In 2015, a group called “The Impact Team” stole the entire database of 33 million users, including those who paid 19 dollars to request the physical cancellation of the profile.
Despite the efforts of the company to remove data from the web, they kept running from torrent downloads to the DEEP WEB.
The first impact was that the user data weren’t enough protected so users’ privacy was exposed from personal data to sexual preferences, good news for the attackers who ranged over phishing, spam, and extorsion.
What can we learn?
Always be suspicious when using a service, when your data are on the net you can’t control them anymore, you can’t be sure if they will be deleted, encrypted with safety standards.
