I’m sure you have heard of J date, which caters to the Jewish community looking for a date or Christian Mingle.com which targets those of the Christian faith in search of a partner, but have you ever heard of MilitarySingles.com? If you haven’t, you are not alone because up until last week I hadn’t either, but then again I am also not involved in the military field. The way I learned about this dating website that has been created for those in involved in the agencies that protect our county from being attacked is due to the fact that the site was supposedly hacked by a group that refers to itself as LulzSec Reborn, where passwords, email addresses, and other information from nearly 171,000 accounts were stolen.
ESingles, which is in charge of running and maintaining the popular website, said in a statement, "At this time there is no actual evidence that MilitarySingles.com was hacked and it is possible that the Tweet from Operation Digiturk is simply a false claim." The company revealed it would be, "treating this claim as if it was real and proceeding with the required security steps in order to ensure the website and its database is secure."
Ironically, this dating site claimed to have an ultra high level of security in which it actively works to protect personal information by storing and encrypting this confidential data 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And because of that reason, the hacking group might have selected the company to show it that it wasn’t as safe as it previously thought and even wrote a noted taunting the group saying it had been “laughing at the site’s security since 2011."
Cyber attacks are all too common these days, but luckily passwords managers are on the market such as SplashData’s SplashID which can be utilized by organizations and be seamlessly integrated with either Windows or Mac OS platforms. This enterprise password management technology enables IT departments to have an ultra high level of control over password and security procedures across multiple departments and employee groups that are within an enterprise.
Some of the features of SplashID Enterprise include: support of MySQL server on Windows, Mac, or Linux , a fully secure database of usernames, passwords, documents, and all other records, an administrative control panel designed for IT to use with ease, customizable group-level and user-level permissions and multi-layer database security.
Through implementing a password manager into daily business operations a company can store their vital passwords and other information while being protected with FIPS-approved 256-bit AES encryption plus additional layers of security; eliminate the need for records to be stored locally on users’ hard drives, thus enabling IT to maintain control over these documents; and have access to a password generator that boasts the capabilities to render very strong, random passwords.
Although the ESingles has still yet to confirm that it was LulzSec 2.0 who entered their network or note that they were even hacked in the first place, Zach Lanier, a security researcher, commented "If it's about getting owned and your data being breached, it doesn't really matter," he says. "It's less about the name and more about the idea. The whole anti-sec movement has been around for a long time."
Edited by Amanda Ciccatelli