Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As a result, all 143 million US victims are at greater risk of identity theft, and will remain at risk for years to come. And those who suffer identify theft will have problems for months, if not years, as they work to clean up their name and credit rating. The company's incident response after the breach was similarly damaging.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Secret Service had arrested a 24-year-old man named Hieu Minh Ngo for running an identity theft service out of his home in Vietnam.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

Which means when a cybercrime forum gets hacked and its user databases posted online, it is often possible to work backwards from some of the more unique passwords for each account and see where else that password was used. Mistake number two was the password for his email account was the same as his cybercrime forum admin account.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Even tech-focused companies need to constantly work on evolving their cyber security posture to help to keep up with the growing sophistication of cybercrime. Rapid technological advancements and potential security gaps due to the growing sophistication of cybercrimes. Supply chain security and third-party vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2022

Dataprot reports that 59 percent of Americans have experienced cybercrime in the past. An estimate stated that $6 trillion worth of damage was caused by cybercrime in 2022, making it vital for businesses to securely destroy data. Cybersecurity poses a risk to all businesses. Related: Biden moves to protect critical infrastructure.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Safe and Secure Federal Websites Act was first introduced as a bill in 2013 and was finally passed into law in July of this year. The State of Cybercrime. The law requires that any federal agency that launches a new website, or that has launched any website since 2012, has to certify that those websites are safe.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The hospital group is now offering affected staffs and patients one year of identity theft recovery services. This government release refers to the economic cost of cybercrime, which includes $29 million from only fraud in 2013. National Security Agency Teaches Students Ethical Hacking, Cybersecurity. million from $94.4

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In April 2013, I received via U.S. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. Fly had invited all of his cybercriminal friends to ruin my financial identity and that of my family. Below are a few translated excerpts.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

He pleaded guilty last week in a Virginia court to access device fraud and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, identity theft, wire fraud and money laundering. Vovnenko also served as administrator of his own cybercrime forum, which he used in 2013 to carry out a plan to have Yours Truly framed for heroin possession.

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