SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, was found guilty of 14 federal criminal charges for the scheme he ran from 2014 to 2019 that netted $25 million in criminal proceeds. Very often he would socially engineer employees at the IT help desk to get their credentials.

Mobile 80

Mobile Identity Theft Social Engineering Retail 80

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 Mellen: This deal seems to be betting on the importance of offering a consolidated consumer security portfolio that incorporates identity theft protection, antivirus, and other security tools like VPNs. billion in 2016, for instance.

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Antivirus Marketing Identity Theft Social Engineering 223

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Richard Bauer of Los Angeles, who worked at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Southern California, pleaded guilty for stalking, computer hacking, and aggravated identity theft. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” states the Associated Press.

Identity Theft 85

Identity Theft Social Engineering Advertising Hacking 85

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

If your email happens to be among those leaked, immediately change your email password. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. What happened to the data? Look out for potential phishing emails and spam emails.

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Marketing Media Advertising Identity Theft 94

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

.” An attacker accessing the source code could retrieve the passwords the servlet uses to communicate with other services could escalate his privileges on the server or use the information in other attacks. “ entity) could leverage this vulnerability to steal passwords from configuration files. concludes the report.

Telecommunications 50

Telecommunications Identity Theft Passwords Social Engineering 50

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Thankfully, this had no significant security impact for me. Three breach notices in one week could have been an upsetting event.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Passwords Firewall 52