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2012 Stratfor email leak: Public disclosure of a number of internal emails between global intelligence company Stratfor's employees and its clients. Unaoil Leak : A leaked cache of emails dating from 2001 to 2012 sent within Unaoil revealed that Unaoil's operatives bribed officials in oil-producing nations in order to win government-funded ...
Because side-channel attacks rely on the relationship between information emitted (leaked) through a side channel and the secret data, countermeasures fall into two main categories: (1) eliminate or reduce the release of such information and (2) eliminate the relationship between the leaked information and the secret data, that is, make the leaked information unrelated, or rather uncorrelated ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.
Information leakage can sometimes be deliberate: for example, an algorithmic converter may be shipped that intentionally leaks small amounts of information, in order to provide its creator with the ability to intercept the users' messages, while still allowing the user to maintain an illusion that the system is secure.
February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...
[16] [17] [18] Belgian tax authorities initiated an investigation based on data from this leak and from the Cayman National Bank and Trust leak published by DDoSecrets the prior month. [14] Politicians in Sweden and the UK, including anti-corruption chief John Penrose said the leak showed the need for reforms on company creation and registration.
These leaks can lead to performance issues, unexpected behavior, and increased cognitive load on software developers, who are forced to understand both the abstraction and the underlying details it was meant to hide. This highlights a cause of software defects: the reliance of the software developer on an abstraction's infallibility.
In computer programming, the lapsed listener problem is a common source of memory leaks for object-oriented programming languages, among the most common ones for garbage collected languages. [ 1 ] It originates in the observer pattern , where observers (or listeners) register with a subject (or publisher) to receive events .