For those who believe Go Daddy didn’t eat enough humble pie for backing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the company’s taken further measures to backtrack on on its earlier support of SOPA. Go Daddy’s president issued an apology Thursday evening pledging to repair relationships with domain holders who bolted to competitors over the issue and to reiterate its oppostion to the proposed legislation.

“We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to Go Daddy’s prior support for SOPA, which was reversed,” Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman said in a statement delivered to media outlets via email.

“Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities,” he added. (…… more from PCworld)

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AT&T has reached out to its wireless customers to let them know that the company was recently hit with an “organized” hacking attempt to collect online information. No accounts were breached, said AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel.

In an e-mailed statement from AT&T, Siegel said “The people in question appear to have used ‘auto script’ technology to determine whether AT&T telephone numbers were linked to online AT&T accounts.” He declined to comment on how AT&T detected the attack.

The company has notified customers whose accounts were affected by the attempted attack — less than 1 percent of the company’s customers. (……. More from The Washington Post)

Despite widely publicised mass hacking attacks computer and smartphone users still leave themselves vulnerable by choosing passwords that are incredibly easy to guess.

Password management app maker SplashData has revealed this year’s worst passwords, with ‘password’ and ‘123456’ taking the top two slots.

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