The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2024, the average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million, with nearly half (46 percent) of all breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII), such as addresses, social security numbers, credit card information and social media posts.

B2C 100

B2C Technology B2B Identity Theft 100

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. Early this week, the company confirmed that the breach impacted nearly 2.1 million individuals. ” reads the announcement published by the AFP. said Gough.

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Data breaches Scams Telecommunications Financial Services 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Britain’s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds for the 2018 hack that exposed data of 400,000 customers. In September 2018, British Airways suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 400,000 customers. ” concludes the ICO.

Hacking 121

Hacking Data breaches Advertising Information Security 121

Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The data was posted on file-sharing service MEGA and also on an unnamed popular hacking forum, it includes more than 12,000 files for a total size of 87 gigabytes. million passwords are not part of known past data breaches. Hunt pointed out that approximately 140 million email accounts and some 10.6 ” wrote Troy Hunt.

Passwords 110

Passwords Data breaches Advertising Hacking 110

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com 2000-08-24 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., For the remainder of this post, we’ll focus on the bolded domain names below: Domain Name Create Date Registrar. 2333youxi[.]com com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

Mobile 278

Mobile Technology Manufacturing Malware 278

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Remember that oft repeated and mocked broadside by former Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer of Microsoft at the company’s 2000 Windows Conference? What has changed in companies since 2000 is the fact that a dedicated team can no longer accomplish security on its own through trust and manual processes. .

Data privacy 143

Data privacy Software Data breaches Risk 143

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With COVID-19 pandemic ruining careers of many in 2021, workers are seen taking data with them (without the permission of their superiors) while leaving their job, respectively. Another research conducted by Aberdeen views that most of the insider data breaches occur with no malicious intent.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Accountability Technology Software 98

Cisco Security

JULY 12, 2021

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Would a risk-conscious, security-aware workforce become a security enabler rather than a security risk?

Security Awareness 145

Security Awareness Risk CISO Cybersecurity 145

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2022

How to Remediate Keys and Certificates After a Data Breach. By cross referencing the breach report with the remediation report, organizations can be confident that their remediation process was successful. Cost of a Machine Identity Data Breach with Yahoo! Data Breach. Alexa Cardenas. The Solution.

Data breaches 40

Data breaches Digital transformation Mobile Passwords 40

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider Data of 750 Million Indian Mobile Subscribers Sold on Hacker Forums Hackers steal $112 million of XRP Ripple cryptocurrency movie2k.to: Ex-operator hands over BTC worth 2 billion euros Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in SIM Swapping Identity (..)

Identity Theft 120

Identity Theft VPN Malware Ransomware 120

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach. Study shows connections between 2000 malware samples used by Russian APT groups. DoorDash Data Breach exposes data of approximately 5 million users. Portuguese hacker faces hundreds of Charges in Football Leaks case. APT or not APT?

Data breaches 81

Data breaches Advertising Malware Ransomware 81

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. While no data was destroyed or compromised, emails experienced severe delays, and military and university operations halted.

Hacking 140

Hacking Cybersecurity Identity Theft Technology 140

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2021

A ransomware attack is said to have taken place on the servers of PrismHR that offer Payroll related services to around 2000 companies across the world. Meanwhile, Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy farm, has admitted that its digital infrastructure was reigning under a ransomware attack that led to data breach of some company’s vital data.

Ransomware 83

Ransomware Data breaches Cyber Attacks Encryption 83

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

SAP serves as the digital plumbing for dozens of multinationals; it is deeply embedded in 87 percent of the top 2000 global companies, enabling and integrating ERP functions, such as sales, production, human resources and finance, as well as other core systems. It is SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.

Data breaches 182

Data breaches Software Internet Internet 182

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade.

Cryptocurrency 308

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Retail Government 308

Jane Frankland

MARCH 30, 2023

Given the ever-evolving threat landscape and the increasing complexity of data breaches, hacks, and compliance failures, it’s important to consider the biological advantages that females possess in highly stressful situations and how they could be an invaluable asset when facing complex cyber threats.

Cybersecurity 130

Cybersecurity Data breaches Cyber threats Hacking 130

Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. While it may be for “Amazon”–or at least devilishly hard–it’s easier than you’d think.

Hacking 130

Hacking Retail Cyber Insurance Authentication 130

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

This type of testing can help you protect your company from cyberattacks, data breaches, and other malicious activities. Saves your organisation’s reputation in the event of a data breach. Cost: $500 to $2000 per scan. Helps meet compliance requirements. Penetration testing services prices.

Penetration Testing 114

Penetration Testing Data breaches Social Engineering Security Awareness 114

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

Over 3,000 Android Malware spotted using unsupported/unknown compression methods to avoid detection WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code #OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server (..)

Cybercrime 98

Cybercrime Hacking Malware Phishing 98

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com 2000-08-24 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., For the remainder of this post, we’ll focus on the bolded domain names below: Domain Name Create Date Registrar. 2333youxi[.]com com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

Mobile 189

Mobile Technology Manufacturing Software 189

Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

and newer NextSeq 1000/2000 Control Software: v1.4.1 The issues impact the following products using the Illumina Universal Copy Service: iScan Control Software: v4.0.0 iScan Control Software: v4.0.5 iSeq 100: All versions MiniSeq Control Software: v2.0 and newer MiSeq Control Software: v4.0 (RUO RUO Mode) MiSeqDx Operating Software: v4.0.1

Software 98

Software Data breaches Education Media 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

.” The collection of torrent files leaked online is 43GB in size and include the source code for Windows Server 2003 and other older operating systems developed by Microsoft, including: Windows 2000 Windows CE 3 Windows CE 4 Windows CE 5 Windows Embedded 7 Windows Embedded CE Windows NT 3.5 Windows NT 4 MS-DOS 3.30 MS-DOS 6.0.

Advertising 119

Advertising Hacking Media Data breaches 119

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Data Breach. This is partly driven by cyber insurance and a growing number of organizations seeing this insurance as a business necessity: "Although cyber insurance policies existed since early 2000, ransomware attacks are one of the main reasons for the increased interest in this type of insurance during the last 5 years.

Cyber threats 132

Cyber threats Insurance Cyber Insurance Ransomware 132

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

” The author is offering the malware for rent at a price of $2000 for 1-month use, $7000 for 6 months and up to $12,000 for an entire year. Once Cerberus has infected an Android device, it will hide its icon from the application drawer , then it asks for the accessibility permission by posing itself as Flash Player Service.

Banking 111

Banking Malware Advertising Social Engineering 111

Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

In the same way, your investors want to know how prepared you are to foresee and mitigate cybersecurity risk events like data breaches, ransomware, and data center outages resulting from cyber attacks. Don’t they already have to report data breaches?” of gross profit (if GP > $100 mil) 1.84 The CPA Journal.

Cybersecurity 90

Cybersecurity Risk Cyber Risk Data breaches 90

Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2021

This post has been brewing for a while, but the catalyst finally came after someone (I'll refer to him as Jimmy) recently emailed me regarding the LOQBOX data breach from 2020. A data breach made you sad and now you want money for being sad? If he's received more spam as a result of a breach, which breach was it?

Data breaches 363

Data breaches Phishing Scams Advertising 363

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2000 — Lou Cipher — Barry Schlossberg, aka Lou Cipher, successfully extorts $1.4 2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Hacking Banking 135

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

Data breaches 280

Data breaches Passwords Password Management Accountability 280

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

Company Product Est HQ Fortinet FortiSIEM 2000 Sunnyvale, CA LogPoint LogPoint SIEM 2001 Copenhagen, Denmark Micro Focus ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager 1976 London, UK Rapid7 Rapid7 SIEM 2000 Boston, MA Trellix SecOps and Analytics 2022 Milpitas, CA. Fortinet FortiSIEM.

Software 115

Software Small Business Marketing Firewall 115

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ICO launched a “Why Your Data Matters” campaign – designed to work as a series of adaptable messages that organisations can tailor to inform their own customers of their data rights. The Report refers to the Data Protection Act 1998 and the new Data Protection Act 2018 as well as the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Data breaches 40

Data breaches Marketing Surveillance Government 40

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our products enable them to minimize the risk of data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance by proactively reducing the exposure of sensitive data and promptly detecting policy violations and suspicious user behavior. Founded: 2000. Founded: 2000. Learn more about Netwrix. Extended detection and response (XDR).

Cybersecurity 145

Cybersecurity Firewall Marketing Encryption 145

Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Behind the majority of these attacks: the ransomware gang known as Vice Society , a Russian-based group linked to multiple K–12 data breaches, including LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the nation. When students turn 18, those rights are transferred to them.

Education 80

Education Ransomware Cybersecurity Risk 80

Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

In the same way, your investors want to know how prepared you are to foresee and mitigate cybersecurity risk events like data breaches, ransomware, and data center outages resulting from cyber attacks. Don’t they already have to report data breaches?” of gross profit (if GP > $100 mil) 1.84 The CPA Journal.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Risk Cyber Risk Data breaches 52

Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Protection for Office 365 Users against ransomware and data breach. Migration of data between Office 365 users with a single click Single pane of glass management panel for Office 365 backup. A large number of Spinbackup’s API-based CASB customers are medium-sized companies and educational institutions.

Backups 40

Backups Technology Data breaches Ransomware 40

eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

ForeScout’s roots in network access date back to 2000, and the vendor is an industry thought leader in its own right, with recent findings like Project Memoria’s AMNESIA:33 report. With the average cost of a data breach approaching $4 million according to IBM, any security solution will pay for itself and avert trouble.

Network Security 118

Network Security Firewall Software Technology 118

Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To train your employees and protect company data from human mistakes and, therefore, costly data breaches; 3. 3 Basic Cyber Security Training Courses For Everybody The best cyber security courses online listed below contain the information everybody must know to keep their data safe in the high-risk online environment.

Social Engineering 40

Social Engineering Accountability Phishing Cybersecurity 40

IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter Bitcoin Scam In July of 2020, a number of high-profile celebrity and brand accounts tweeted out messages stating that all Bitcoin sent to their wallets for a period of time would be returned twofold—if someone sent $1000, they would receive $2000 back. In the end, it cost Cisco $1.4

Insurance 98

Insurance Data breaches Social Engineering Accountability 98