Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security , discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. zackwhittaker for writeup & collaboration!

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

That data included computer name, username, domain name, current process name, current process ID, and several fields from a customer’s Passwordstate account, including title, username, description, notes, URL, and password. According to Bleeping Computer , the CDN servers used in the attack are no longer active.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S. In the U.S., for example, all 50 states (along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. DNS encryption restores your privacy by making it impossible for anything other than the DNS resolver to read and respond to your queries. And yet almost every Internet account requires one. Homomorphic encryption.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

27, a popular fraud bazaar known as Joker’s Stash began selling card data from “a new huge nationwide breach” that purportedly includes more than 30 million card accounts issued by thousands of financial institutions across 40+ U.S. In the 2013 megabreach at Target Corp. , On the evening of Monday, Jan.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is significant because in November 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Significant data breaches at credit score bureaus include: . Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. The data included addresses, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. The data indicates that attackers are going after larger data sets, rather than relying on getting their data from a larger number of smaller attacks. SSL Certificates.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Searching on ubsagency@gmail.com in Constella Intelligence shows the address was used sometime before February 2019 to create an account under the name “ SammySam_Alon ” at the interior decorating site Houzz.com. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A data breach can be a very costly event, and an increasing number of these breaches are happening at smaller firms. Like the small law firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, who in early February announced that every single legal file it ever possessed – thousands of them – were now useless because of a security breach.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. The common demonitor: All of those organizations have now disclosed massive data breaches over a span of the past five years.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments. Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. The AnyConnect Network Visibility Module (NVM) for endpoint telemetry data.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

O ver six million data records get lost or stolen every single day. The Cost of a Data Breach Study concluded that businesses pay $148 per one lost or stolen data record. Usually, the cost of lost or stolen data items reaches hundreds or even thousands of dollars per company. You can do the math.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Deduce is an identity-focused cybersecurity startup with two core solutions: Customer Alerts for protecting users and their data from account takeover and compromise, and Identity Insights for validating legitimate users and stopping fraud. Privafy aims to serve a valuable corner of the market – securing data-in-motion.

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

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