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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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SAML: Still Going Strong After Two Decades

eSecurity Planet

These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). Context: Authentication vs. Authorization. Service providers are the organizations and web services offered to users through a valid request.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” account on Carder[.]su

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Open Subtitles breach: The dangers of password reuse

Malwarebytes

The impact so far: almost seven million accounts “breached and ransomed” back in August. New breach: Open Subtitles had almost 7M accounts breached and ransomed in Aug. The site was created in 2006 with little knowledge of security, so passwords were stored in md5() hashes without salt”. 75% were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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MY TAKE: DigiCert and Oracle partner to extend digital trust and scalable infrastructure globally

The Last Watchdog

Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. So it was a natural progression for traditional PKI solution providers to extend digital certificates and PKI — the tried-and-true form of authenticating and securing digital connections – into this realm of hyperconnectivity.

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Five Cybersecurity Trends that Will Affect Organizations in 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

Vital defense strategies include timely patching and updating of software, as well as locking down network access with multifactor authentication (MFA) and privileged access management (PAM) solutions. Accordingly, organizations should expect an increase in phishing campaigns. Supply chain attacks will intensify. About Netwrix .

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. In 2006, several of the same scientists who developed Tor founded the Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.