Are you Monitoring PasteBin for Your Employer? You should be!

Last year I went to a great Hacker Security convention called GrrCon here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'll be going this year too, so give me a shout if you want to meet up. It's not an expensive ticket, and the content was SO amazing last year.

One of the things I took away was that I needed to be monitoring things like PasteBin. If you monitor security websites, you probably recognize Pastebin as a popular place for hackers to post pilfered data, though the site has many more worthwhile uses. I was surprised to find computer system data for an old employer of mine (including usernames and passwords!).

Getting it taken down was easy enough, but I then went out and found PasteLert, which gives me alerting on any search terms that I plug into it. I can even pipe them into an RSS feed so I can read them along with my daily news in Feedly, which is pretty great.

I highly recommend that everyone looks into ways to find leaked data about your organization!