Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The American Bar Association (ABA) disclosed a data breach, threat actors gained access to older credentials for 1,466,000 members. According to BleepingComputer, 1,466,000 members were impacted by this breach. The bad news is that many members used a default password assigned by the platform and never changed it over the time.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 20, 2024

Are you using the same passwords in multiple places online? Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Well, stop. Stop right now. And make sure that you've told your friends and family to stop being reckless too.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters. Very slick!

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Quick Heal Antivirus

JUNE 28, 2021

The issue of a data breach continues to plague the world of cybersecurity. The post RockYou2021: Massive data leak of passwords on the dark web appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice. What seems to be the most.

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Graham Cluley

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the coming weeks Google will be rolling out a new feature to users of its Chrome browser which will make it easier to check for weak passwords and warn if stored passwords have been compromised in a past data breach. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 8, 2019

Almost 2 years ago to the day, I wrote about Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era. Shortly after that blog post I launched Pwned Passwords with 306M passwords from previous breach corpuses. 3,768,890 passwords. 3,768,890 passwords.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 11, 2021

According to the 2020 Data Breaches report by Verizon, 25% of all breaches involved the use of stolen credentials. Brute force attacks have a similar share, accounting for 18% of all breaches, and 34% of those for small businesses. Why are password attacks like brute forcing so effective?

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach, the security incident exposed the personal information of approximately 1 million individuals. Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of informing approximately one million individuals.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 5, 2022

A DatPiff data breach is currently impacting many people, as reportedly approximately 7.5 million DatPiff members’ passwords have been put up for sale online. About the DatPiff Data Breach According to BleepingComputer, July 2020 was the first time when […].

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PCI perspectives

JULY 27, 2021

Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable. In this 8-part back-to-basics series , we highlight payment security basics for protecting against payment data theft. Today’s blog focuses on using strong passwords. Today’s blog focuses on using strong passwords.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. pic.twitter.com/62uQWT4YQB — Andrea Draghetti (@AndreaDraghetti) May 12, 2023 The most recent entry in the database is March 16th, 2021, a circumstance that suggests it is a new data breach suffered by Luxottica.

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Adam Levin

MAY 5, 2020

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and 750,000 active users, announced that hackers had breached their systems. .

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 11, 2021

We might be witnessing the largest collection of leaked passwords of all time, as a 100GB text file leaked by a user on a popular hacker forum contains 8.4 billion passwords. Billion Passwords Were Leaked Online It’s very likely that the passwords were gathered from past data breaches And it looks like the passwords from […].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Block disclosed a data breach related to the Cash App investing app and is notifying 8.2 The data breach involved a former employee that downloaded some unspecified reports of its Cash App Investing app that contained some U.S. The post Block discloses data breach involving Cash App potentially impacting 8.2

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

customers of Callaway, the American sports equipment maker best known for its golf equipment and accessories, had their personal data compromised in an early-August data breach. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites. More than 1.1

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. The company is sending customers data breach notification letters to confirm that threat actors have stolen sensitive personal information in the March attack.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 3, 2021

The post A Nine-Year-Long Data Breach was Disclosed by Malaysia Airlines appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. About the Enrich flyer program Enrich is the frequent flyer program of Malaysia Airlines. The passengers, both regular customers and companies, […].

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On his blog , Troy Hunt has announced a major milestone in the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. If it says a password you use has breached, you know to never use it again. Police pipeline.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 18, 2021

According to them, a flaw enabled a cybercriminal to obtain students’ private data such as email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and even passwords. The post Data Breach Impacts the Student Health Insurance Carrier Guard.me appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning on Thursday about a data breach at Sisense, a US business intelligence software. The agency strongly recommended that all Sisense users promptly change their passwords and any other potentially compromised credentials used to access the company’s services.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account. You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. And finding that password is even easier.

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The State of Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

LastPass, the popular password manager trusted by millions of people around the world, has announced that it suffered a security breach two weeks ago that saw hackers break into its systems and steal information. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Since then, the source of the dataset has been identified as data breach search engine Leak-Lookup. Prevention platform SpyCloud compared the MOAB data with its own recaptured dataset and found at least 94% of the data was either public, old, or otherwise widely-known. That leaves a lot of new records.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Change passwords regularly. Inventory your sensitive data.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

But it's exactly what it sounds like and on Thursday next week, I'll be up in front of US congress on the other side of the world testifying about the impact of data breaches. For a bit more context, I've been chatting with folks from the House Energy and Commerce Committee for a while now about the mechanics of data breaches.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. Password being such a central piece of any authentication-based system, every developer would be involved with it at some point in his or her career. It becomes exceedingly important to make sure these stored passwords can???t There are two??broad

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). In the report’s findings, stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities are the top reasons for web breaches. This year, these were the top reasons for web breaches. Brute forcing passwords (10 percent) came in third.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 6, 2022

It's back to business as usual with more data breaches, more poor handling of them and more IoT pain. I think on all those fronts there's a part of me that just likes the challenge and the opportunity to fix a broken thing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach. On August 1, the US social commerce marketplace Poshmark disclosed a data breach. users by email and has published the information on his blog and in the app. .

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Google Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Passwords are usually the first line of defense against hackers, and with the number of data breaches that could publicly expose those passwords, users must be vigilant about safeguarding their credentials. Password Checkup on Android apps is available on Android 9 and above, for users of Autofill with Google.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 20, 2024

Whether they're from a stealer as in this week's Naz.API incident, or just aggregated from multiple data breaches (which is also in Naz.API), I inevitably get some backlash after loading them: "this doesn't tell me anything useful, why are you loading this?!" They're an odd thing, credential lists.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This week, I've been writing up my 5-part guide on "Fixing Data Breaches" On Monday I talked about the value of education ; let's try and stop the breach from happening in the first place. Here I had 13m of their customer records (including plain text passwords, thank you very much) that someone had sent me.

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Graham Cluley

AUGUST 17, 2021

New research suggests that not many people have learnt the lesson of not reusing passwords, putting themselves and the companies they work for at risk. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, healthcare data breaches have increased by 93 percent. Healthcare organizations can’t afford to let preventable breaches slip by. Globally, the average cost of a healthcare data breach has reached $10.93 And ransomware attacks have grown by 278 percent over the same period.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 21, 2022

International credit bureau TransUnion says that hackers managed to breach a server operated by its South African division, and gained access to the personal information of individuals. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

A professional report (and not a personal blog post) on that topic might be available in few days in a special session. It was also possibile to see multiple credentials (same email and password) within multiple file entries which highlights an insane reuse of credentials. SecurityAffairs – Collection #1, data leak).

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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