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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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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

The deep web is also made up of content that is not indexed by search engines and requires a login to access. 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. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Is The Cost Of Predictive Cyber Security Worth The Investment?

Security Boulevard

With the advancement by BitDefender to come out with machine learning with the Anti-virus in 2006 along with Cisco, FireEye, Checkpoint, etc. Critical — Multi-factor Authentication (enabled) — Least Privileged (Predictive). Social engineering through LinkedIn still works. This was in 2005! Becoming A Predictable Science?

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. He also shares passwords with his friends, leading to the first computer “troll.” retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren).

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Weathering Russian Winter: The Current State of Russian APTs

Security Boulevard

According to Richard Bejtlich’s paper on the topic , ‘the United States Air Force coined the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ in 2006 because teams working within the service needed a way to communicate with counterparts in the unclassified public world.’ Social engineering training. Monitoring. Regular patching.

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MY TAKE: How state-backed cyber ops have placed the world in a constant-state ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, details of Alexsey Belan’s Russian-backed escapades came to light in March 2017 when the FBI indicted Belan and three co-conspirators in connection with hacking Yahoo to pilfer more than 500 million email addresses and gain deep access to more than 30 million Yahoo accounts. presidential elections. It’s an arms race like no other.

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