Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. In college at CWRU, he participated in a philosophy club, where he was “interested in the philosophy behind mathematics.”

Malware 83

Malware Passwords Identity Theft Data collection 83

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

14, KrebsOnSecurity alerted GovPayNet that its site was exposing at least 14 million customer receipts dating back to 2012. In July, identity theft protection service LifeLock fixed an information disclosure flaw that needlessly exposed the email address of millions of subscribers. On Friday, Sept.

Mobile 243

Mobile Government Identity Theft Telecommunications 243

Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

Data breaches 40

Data breaches Passwords Backups Mobile 40

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

Data breaches 279

Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 279

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. A DSW data breach also exposes transaction information from 1.4

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135