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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

Security Affairs

million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers across the US and Canada. Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 ” . .

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US CISA report shares details on web shells used by Iranian hackers

Security Affairs

The report also analyzed a PowerShell shell script that is part of the KeeThief open-source project, which allows the adversary to access encrypted password credentials stored by the Microsoft “KeePass” password management software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Visa warns of new sophisticated credit card skimmer dubbed Baka

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Set up a Web Application Firewall to block suspicious and malicious requests from reaching the website. Require strong administrative passwords(use a password manager for best results) and enable two-factor authentication. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Home Depot Data Breach Settlement: 5 Things It Must Do Now

SecureWorld News

The Home Depot recently reached a multi-state agreement which settles an investigation into a 2014 data breach. In 2014, hackers accessed the company's network and installed malware to the self-checkout point-of-sale system. The data breach compromised payment card information of roughly 40 million customers. million to 46 U.S.

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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

If you’re not familiar, the federal organization is the Office of Personnel Management, and OPM announced it was compromised in June of 2015, with the attackers possibly having access as early as March 2014. If you’re a site owner, put a web application firewall in place as soon as possible to stem breaches on your site.

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What Is An SSL Certificate?

SiteLock

As a way to encourage websites to use SSL certificates, Google has used HTTPS as a ranking signal since 2014. Use strong, unique passwords. Reusing a password puts all of your accounts at risk if that password is exposed. Use a trusted password manager to safely store all your different passwords!

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How to defend your website against card skimmers

Malwarebytes

Cybercriminals don’t break into websites one by one, using their best guess to figure out your password like they do in the movies. If your computer has malware on it, it doesn’t matter how secure your website is, because criminals can just steal your password or login in to your website from your computer, pretending to be you.

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