Posts tagged with “security”

A timeline of a 2021 account takeover, the resulting Coinbase losses, and security lessons from the incident.

I’ve been hit by a couple of email bomb attacks recently. The first sign wasn’t one suspicious message. It was hundreds of perfectly ordinary signup emails arriving almost at once. The August 2 attack produced 350 unique messages. Of those, 204 arrived in the first 30 minutes, and the flood peaked a…