Friendly reminder: If you haven’t diversified your passwords yet, get a password manger and do it!
Its not an if someone gets hacks, its when.
I don’t know if this hack included any user and password, but if it did, they will try the combo on other sites.
KeePassXC, works great but you are responsible for your own file and syncing it between devices. (I use syncthing, but a cloud drive is a viable sync method, its all encyptyed) (iOS options limited)
Bitwarden, great if you don’t want to worry about the file and everything syncs on its own. (There is a self hosted version, if you prefer).
Avoid anything paid or tied to a major corporation, they have proven time and again they cn not be trusted to keep our data safe.
I’m using 1Password and have been happy using it. Any reason not to use it, aside from not being open source?
For something that literally holds all your credentials, just it being closed source should be enough of a concern.
It’s always heart breaking to see IA in trouble :(
Yeah, what kind of hacktivist group would go against Internet Archive? Not activists for good at least.
Edit: according to another article they are a pro-Palestinian group. Still not sure about their motives for Internet Archive.
BlackMeta, also known as SN_BlackMeta, appeared in November 2023 and has a history of claiming responsibility for attacks against organizations in Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. In May, the group claimed responsibility for a multiday denial-of-service attack on the San Francisco-based Internet Archive. In April, the group claimed to have attacked the Israel-based infrastructure of the Orange Group, a French provider of telecommunication services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The group also targeted organizations in Saudi Arabia, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.
When someone asked the group who claimed responsibility on Twitter, they said this:
They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.
Later they made a long Tweet saying even more.
I’ll be fully honest, I do not get it. At all.
You’d think they’d be attacking some government website or even FAANG if they really wanted to say something.
Looking through their feed, seems like most of their attacks are DDOS. Guess IA was one of the few they actually managed to breach.Picking on easy targets is lame.
When faced with an unstoppable death machine, you don’t attack it is impervious. You savage it were it hurts most.
