Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Frequently, it's some long-forgotten site they haven't even thought about in years and also frequently, the first people know of these incidents is via HIBP: large @ticketfly data breach.

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Passwords Data breaches Password Management Accountability 279

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Facebook updates its bug bounty program, it is increasing the overall rewards for security flaws that could be exploited to take over accounts. Increasing Bounties for Account Takeover VulnerabilitiesSince 2011, our Bug Bounty program has been among the most… Gepostet von Facebook Bug Bounty am Dienstag, 20. November 2018.

Accountability 109

Accountability Data breaches Advertising Hacking 109

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011. ” SentinelOne’s Cary said he came to the same conclusion, noting that the Protonmail account tied to the GitHub profile that published the records was registered a month before the leak, on January 15, 2024. Image: nattothoughts.substack.com.

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Government Hacking Cyber threats InfoSec 341

SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Advertising Media Account Security Accountability 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

First is the news related to Russian hackers infiltrating an email account of a British Member of Parliament to steal intelligence. According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act.

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Cyber Attacks Ransomware Accountability Data breaches 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data vary by individuals and organizations, it includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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Risk Spyware Hacking Accountability 139

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Antivirus Hacking Advertising Media 145

eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. In 2011, LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist announced that the company’s servers may have been breached, as evidenced by anomalies in network traffic. LastPass pricing.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Architecture 133

Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

The service, which accepts PayPal, Bitcoin and all major credit cards, is aimed primarily at enterprises engaged in repetitive, automated activity that often results in an IP address being temporarily blocked — such as data scraping, or mass-creating new accounts at some service online. io , and online[.]io.

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Advertising Computers and Electronics Software Adware 291

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

New problems to Facebook , phone numbers associated with more than 400 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. A new privacy incident involved Facebook, according to TechCruch, phone numbers associated with 419 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online.

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Advertising Accountability Mobile Passwords 111

Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

The gateway was used to allow external users and its partners, including foreign space agencies, contractors, and educational institutions, to remotely access to a shared environment for specific missions and data. ” the NASA OIG said. In December the U.S. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Hacking Data breaches Advertising Firewall 112

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. A DSW data breach also exposes transaction information from 1.4 retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren).

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Hacking Banking 135

Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

Some of the videos were showing how to exfiltrate data (i.e. contacts, images, and files) from various online accounts associated cloud storage services. Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . continues IBM.

Advertising 130

Advertising Media Authentication Hacking 130

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households. But it was 2011. Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. New Emotet variant uses connected devices as proxy C2 servers.

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Cyber Attacks Wireless Advertising Passwords 83

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They may start with a low-level account, but they exploit permissions and pathways to work themselves up to an intimidating level of privilege where they’re poised to cause irreparable damage and also gain persistence or lockdown the account. Forrester estimated that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials.

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Engineering Technology Architecture Accountability 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

Some impact specific countries while others focus on individual industries, but each regulation being enforced is an indication that companies must be more accountable when it comes to how they manage data privacy and people’s data or they risk having to pay large fines.

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Data privacy Encryption Healthcare Insurance 88

SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. New research from security vendor Aqua Security, which draws on the past year of internal customer data, finds that businesses continue to suffer fallout from their poorly configured cloud assets in the form of data breaches.

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Data breaches Internet Internet Media 67

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Knowing them, a threat actor could be able to hijack the session and therefore the account. If attackers had access to this key, they could create an admin account and have privileged access to a website. As reported in 2011, the company fell victim to two cyberattacks, which are suspected to be part of an espionage attempt.

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Manufacturing Media Accountability Risk 98

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

There’s going to be quite a bit of concern for parents and teachers alike, with sensitive data being thrown into the mix. According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Special Educational Needs (SEN) data. Contractual offers made to members of staff.

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Ransomware Backups Education Cyber Insurance 95

Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. in 2011 almost 10 years ago.

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Authentication Internet Internet Software 90

Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Different wireless technologies operate within the RF spectrum, each utilizing specific frequency bands based on their intended applications (Molisch, 2011). These regulations necessitate thorough assessments of wireless systems to ensure compliance and mitigate the risk of data breaches. IEEE Access, 6, 28575-28606. Shafiq, M.

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Penetration Testing Wireless IoT Technology 52

McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Organizations are less worried about unauthorized consumer cloud applications and are more concerned about the security of sensitive data in strategic enterprise cloud services. Cybersecurity incidents involving sensitive data in the cloud can be less frequent, but more damaging.

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NopSec

JULY 19, 2022

And while cybercrime is ramping up, the number of common vulnerabilities and exposures identified each year has been declining — from 6,610 in 2006 to 4,155 in 2011. Grimes, too, focuses on vulnerabilities with known exploits but he refines it further, taking into account information available from the U.S.

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Cybersecurity Risk Cybercrime Software 40

eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Its audit-ready compliance capabilities ensure that an organization’s security meets key standards for compliance frameworks , including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and HITRUST. The skills gap.

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Threat Detection Technology Artificial Intelligence Architecture 58

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

From the first Roomba in 2002 to the first virtual assistant (Siri) in 2011, AI has slowly and steadily penetrated the consumer technology market, often with little comprehension from buyers that artificial intelligence is actually powering the functionality behind their favorite devices.

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Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 95

Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobody is really paying attention if someone accesses them illicitly.

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Identity Theft Accountability Social Engineering Scams 99

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

In 2011, researcher Ang Cui showed how updates to common laser printers were not signed or otherwise authenticated, meaning that you might think you’re doing the right thing by applying an update when in reality you might be unintentionally installing malware. Vamosi: SolarWinds, NotPetya, WannaCry, The Target Data breach.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

In 2011, researcher Ang Cui showed how updates to common laser printers were not signed or otherwise authenticated, meaning that you might think you’re doing the right thing by applying an update when in reality you might be unintentionally installing malware. Vamosi: SolarWinds, NotPetya, WannaCry, The Target Data breach.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hacking InfoSec Software 52

Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

The message included links to files containing highly sensitive information, including snippets of leaked user account data, maps of internal AshleyMadison company servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information. When the owner of AshleyMadisonSucks[.]com com website.

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Hacking Accountability Engineering Media 240

Krebs on Security

JUNE 20, 2024

Here’s a press release from Radaris that was published on PR Newswire in April 2011: A press release published by Radaris in 2011 names the CEO of Radaris as Gary Norden, which was a fake name made up by Radaris’ marketing department. In other words, Radaris has been misrepresenting itself to investors from the beginning.

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Marketing Telecommunications DNS Data privacy 347

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

They were particularly effective at wreaking havoc on the web around 2011 and back then, they too were represented as being another bunch of scary dudes. Incidentally, the media piece led to a company's website which led to a request for your personal information - no free email accounts allowed - before you could read the content.).

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Data breaches Passwords Marketing Hacking 245