Tag: security.txt
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There are lessons to be learned from government websites serving cryptocurrency miners
This was awkward. On Sunday, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator and thus the public body that issues fines for data breaches, was found to be serving a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website. The issue was first reported by security researcher Scott Helme, who discovered that the ICO wasn’t the…
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There are lessons to be learned from government websites serving cryptocurrency miners
This was awkward. On Sunday, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator and thus the public body that issues fines for data breaches, was found to be serving a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website. The issue was first reported by security researcher Scott Helme, who discovered that the ICO wasn’t the…