Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2023

Reddit was urging a US court to maintain the anonymity of six Reddit users who’d mentioned piracy all the way back in 2011 and 2018. According to Ars Technica, the most recent Reddit users were in the firing line for having their identities revealed for similar posts made in 2011. One individual posted that “I have Grande.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. Milka revealed that, at the time of his talk, less than 10 percent of Google accounts used 2FA.

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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. One of the biggest risks with using LastPass is its track record with preventing hacks. Notable LastPass features: MFA, SSO, and more. LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

“This overview is intended to help the cybersecurity community reduce the risk presented by these threats.” “This overview is intended to help the cybersecurity community reduce the risk presented by these threats.” Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

One doesn't need a legitimate account or access to view these data but a single, specific URL. Although version 1 of SweepWizard has been available for download from the Apple App Store since 2016, according to archived information, Wired could access sweep data as far back as 2011. We don't just report on threats—we remove them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Reducing the risk from credential compromise is forcing regulators and industry leaders to mandate multifactor authentication (MFA) and re-assess the efficacy of OTP. They have realized that relying on a single knowledge factor such as passwords was not good enough, creating risks and vulnerabilities that attackers were eager to exploit.

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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. I wouldn’t want to be that person right now.”

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

The vulnerability left the company at risk from cyberattacks over an extended period of time. 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.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Manual and annoying for a long time, passwords were a key technology, beginning in the early digital age, to protect servers, accounts, and eventually email. Now, it is available to any user with a Microsoft account. Chik believes cutting out passwords and using the new verification method could reduce the risk by up to 99.9%.

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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. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 30, 2023

World Backup Day is an annual celebration held by the backup technology industry to encourage people to back up their data and avoid the risk of losing it forever. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

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. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Gerstein, a 1980 West Point graduate, who served as the Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary (acting) and Deputy Undersecretary in the Science and Technology Directorate from 2011-2014, in his "Better Anticipating and Managing Today's Growing Cyber Risks" article.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 26, 2018

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published updated interpretative guidance concerning the duty of covered public companies to disclose certain material cybersecurity risks and incidents when filing with the SEC. Summary of New Guidance. Cybersecurity Disclosure Obligations – Generally. authorities.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2022

The reputation is well-deserved when you consider that we (the cybersecurity team) tell users to create a unique password for each account to increase security. In 2011, Forrester estimated that each call to the help desk for a password reset costs $70. Reduce password management pain and the risk of a breach. Data security.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

Once a machine gets infected, ZeuS immediately steals information from web browsers and Windows’ protected storage (PStore) , such as banking or financial information and stored account credentials, respectively. Because of this, fraudsters can easily log back into that banking account using the recorded keystrokes. was leaked.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively). Here's the bigger issue that concerns me in both the Telstra and Optus cases: the security of our telecommunication accounts is increasingly paramount these days.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. Misconfigured buckets and leaky APIs continue to be the biggest and most impactful cloud security holes for businesses. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. You don’t want to discover, mid-incident, that someone in accounting didn’t authorise a payment for another year’s worth of security detection and remediation. Contractual offers made to members of staff.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

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. Microsoft revealed last month that the Russia-linked APT28 group targeted 104 accounts belonging to the employees of democratic organizations in various European countries.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

People who responded to recruitment messages were invited to create an account at one of these sites, enter personal and bank account data (mules were told they would be processing payments for their employer’s “programmers” based in Eastern Europe) and then log in each day to check for new messages. indep: Yeah.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In fact, REvil/Sodinokibi topped our ransomware detections in Q2 of 2021, accounting for 73% of our top-10 ransomware detections. Cloud incidents targeting verticals in the United States accounted for 34% of incidents recorded, with a 19% decrease in Great Britain. COVID-19 Impact on Workforce Continues to Increase Cloud Threats.

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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 vulnerabilities can potentially lead to compromising sensitive information, highlighting the need for robust testing methodologies to identify and mitigate such risks effectively.

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Google Security

MAY 23, 2023

For a CA owner’s inclusion request to be accepted, it must clearly demonstrate that the value proposition for the security and privacy of Chrome’s end users exceeds the corresponding risk of inclusion. For example, in 2011 a compromised CA led to a large-scale attack on web users in Iran.

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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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NopSec

MAY 17, 2016

Here at NopSec, we are all about risk — our number one goal as a company to help organizations evaluate and reduce their risk. However, the term “risk” can be highly subjective, making it difficult for organizations to determine the riskiest vulnerabilities. This leads to an overall malware exploit rate of about 2.8%.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 17, 2018

The late, great device hacker Barnaby Jack demonstrated an over the air attack on an insulin pump at a hacker conference in Miami way back in 2011. The question is this: why is it that sophisticated, multi national firms that make medical devices have such a hard time addressing cyber risk in their products?

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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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Andrew Hay

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As a child, I always found myself wondering why people didn’t just move if they knew they were at risk of getting hit by a tornado. Without having a way to escape the danger, these people had to adapt their lifestyles to account for the unpredictable, and potentially devastating, weather.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The vulnerability traces back to code released in 2011, which is a significant amount of time for a hashing algorithm to find its way into hundreds if not thousands of projects. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this vulnerability make an appearance in future trending CVEs.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

With three product variations, IBM Security Guardium Insights offers risk visibility with centralized audit data; Data Protection classifies data, sets controls, and monitors user activity; and Data Encryption shields data with file and application-level encryption and centralized key management. Microsoft Azure.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 3, 2021

But if you’re asking me about my first role with a cybersecurity title, that came in 2011, when I was recruited to run the vulnerability management team for a major enterprise. I told them, “Here’s my mission, I need you to help me hold me accountable.”. Every city that I visited, I built groups and met communities.

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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. Untested patches run the risk of breaking functions within your current systems and causing business disruption. Covid has forced most of them to work remotely.

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