True Insight » spam http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog Information Security in Today's Digital Culture Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:57:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Adult Web Industry Compromised http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2008/01/15/adult-web-industry-compromised/ http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2008/01/15/adult-web-industry-compromised/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:37:03 +0000 Brett Edgar http://blog.truedigitalsecurity.com/2008/01/15/adult-web-industry-compromised/ Read more →]]>

The AP has released a story [FOXNews.com] detailing that a New Jersey company which provides accounting software to the adult-entertainment industry has been hacked. The software apparently tracks referrals from one website to another and determines how much each website owner is supposed to be paid based on those referrals. The breach allowed the attackers to obtain the subscriber lists of several adult websites. Those subscribers are now being spammed with targeted adult advertisements from competitor websites. The greatest quote from the article from the owner of several adult websites: “There’s a loss, in my opinion, of user confidence.”

Brett Edgar

Brett Edgar

Brett is a Founder and the Director of Managed Security Services at TRUE. He has been working in the system and network forensics field since graduating from the University of Tulsa with a B.S. Computer Science in 2003. He speaks hexadecimal fluently and is TRUE's resident human Ethernet transceiver. He holds CISSP, CSSLP, and CNSS 4011-4015 certificates, loves MLB and NCAA Football, and when he gets tired of hexadecimal, he goes home to hang out with his wife and kid.

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