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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

Krebs on Security

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 billion in 2013. million people. state tax database, without naming the state.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io , a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. was responsible for $17 million worth of stolen credential sales since its inception in 2013.

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Stalkerware Vendor Hacked

Schneier on Security

The stalkerware company LetMeSpy has been hacked : TechCrunch reviewed the leaked data, which included years of victims’ call logs and text messages dating back to 2013. The database we reviewed contained current records on at least 13,000 compromised devices, though some of the devices shared little to no data with LetMeSpy.

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Big changes to Twitter verification: How to spot a verified account

Malwarebytes

Controversially, Blue accounts gained the same visual checkmark as verified accounts despite not using the same identity verification process. This resulted in an early wave of imitation accounts causing confusion. Twitter recently announced that all legacy accounts would lose their checkmark on April 1.

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How to Secure Your Business Social Media Accounts

BH Consulting

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. More than 4.7

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

Krebs on Security

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 says Fearlless first registered on Verified in February 2013. account isn’t connected to much else that’s interesting except a now-deleted account at Vkontakte , the Russian answer to Facebook. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept.

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Hackers compromised a Canonical GitHub account, Ubuntu source code was not impacted

Security Affairs

Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., Hackers at least created 11 new GitHub repositories in compromised Canonical account. the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. ” states the Canonical team.