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Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Malwarebytes

To be honest, between scraping vulnerabilities dating back to 2010 , and the Cambridge Analytica scandal , an old data breach is still a data breach, and you’re probably still going to need to pay attention to it. Some reports say the data was scraped in 2019, others talk about early 2020. Whether you like it or not. Why it still matters.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. When applied to a set of 43 million compromised LinkedIn passwords, it was able to crack them with 27 percent accuracy. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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History of Computer Hacking and Cybersecurity Threats: From the 50s to Today

ForAllSecure

The first computer password was created in 1961, when Fernando Corbató and his team at MIT created the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). To ensure that users could access only their own files and programs, the team created a system of passwords that allowed users to log in and access their personal data.

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School software provider Active Network discloses data breach

Security Affairs

Exposed data include name, store username and password, payment card number, payment card expiration date, and payment card security code. This incident did not involve unauthorized access to Social Security numbers, driver license numbers, or similar government ID card numbers.”

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Curiously, unlike common stealers, OnionPoison implants do not automatically collect user passwords, cookies or wallets. 3BA945FD2C123FEC74EFDEA042DDAB4EB697677C600F83C87E07F895FB1B55E2. 2021-Dec-21 09:44:08. PE32+ executable (DLL) (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows.

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

Herjavec Group

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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6 Dangerous Microsoft Office 365 Security Concerns for Business

Spinone

The Absence of a Password Policy for Employees – About 81% of company data breaches happened due to poor passwords One of the main O365 security concerns is password carelessness. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, more than 70% of workers reuse passwords. How to make passwords secure: 1.