Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The defendants have also attempted to extort money from the companies requesting them to pay ‘bug bounties’ to avoid publicly disclose the data breaches. In 2017 the FTC charged the company for deceiving customers with its privacy and data security practices. In 2016, the company warned its 9.5

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the New York Times , the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and used it to inform internal personnel that the company had “suffered a data breach” and provided a list of allegedly hacked internal databases. “I I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach.”

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequency with which it's been suffering data breaches that have ultimately landed in my inbox. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations. Well, almost nothing.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. SecurityAffairs – Capital One, Data breach). Capital One, one of the largest U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015, . ” reported the Reuters.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“SCHULTE’s theft is the largest data breach in the history of the CIA, and his transmission of that stolen information to WikiLeaks is one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the history of the U.S.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Security experts from Cyble reported that a threat actor is attempting to sell twenty-nine databases on a hacker forum since May 7. Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. million January 2017 CafeMom.com 2.6 million N/A EatStreet.com 6.4

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Accessing an online account, users could make several actions, such as manage insurance claims and pay bills. Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. In response to the attacks, State Farm reset the passwords for impacted accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2020

US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over 2019 data breach. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has imposed an $80 million fine to the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp over 2019 data breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

More clients of Capital One have been impacted in the 2019 data breach, the US bank is notifying them of their SSNs exposure. US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. District Court in Seattle.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

On January 4, 2017, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), located in Cleveland, Ohio, became aware of an infection on more than 100 of its computers. The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. Who is Phillip Durachinsky?

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

In 2017, the credit reporting agency Equifax suffered a massive data breach, attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability. . Apache Struts 2 is an open-source, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017). It encompasses a range of electromagnetic radio waves utilized for wireless information transmission. IEEE Access, 6, 12725-12738.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

Keeping information secure from any theft activities in the digital world is necessary. But unfortunately, with everything going online, the digital world seems to be just as dangerous as the real world, especially when storing your personal information. . Case study: The prosecution of AA Ireland Limited .

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Every organization should have a responsible and accountable program for reducing risk through vulnerability management. There’s no way to eliminate security vulnerabilities completely, so it’s our shared responsibility as a global information security industry to implement approaches to hunt and fix them swiftly.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of the largest data breaches, including the ones that affected Last.fm , Rambler.ru , FriendFinder Networks , LinkedIn , and MySpace.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

. “Upon being notified of the misconfiguration, the endpoint was quickly secured and is now only accessible with required authentication. Our investigation found no indication customer accounts or systems were compromised. The exposed data are dated from 2017 to August 2022. ” continues SOCRadar.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

. “TAG observed a North Korean government-backed attacker group that previously targeted security researchers posing as recruiters at Samsung and sending fake job opportunities to employees at multiple South Korean information security companies that sell anti-malware solutions.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

The gateway was used to allow external users and its partners, including foreign space agencies, contractors, and educational institutions, to remotely access to a shared environment for specific missions and data. ” the NASA OIG said. In December the U.S. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers , celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. “A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online.”

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

of the British Airways turnover for its 2017 financial year, however, it is less than the possible maximum fine of 4% under the EU GDPR. In September 2018, personal and payment card information of British Airways customers were stolen by attackers, stolen data did not include travel or passport details. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

Security experts from Group-IB, an international company specializing in preventing cyberattacks and developing information security solutions, has investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. Within a year, the number of data leaks soared by 369%.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. This week, CrowdStrike revealed to have recently observed a malicious activity associated with Magniber ransomware , a threat that has been active since 2017.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

But the cloud's "as-a-Service" model does not provide service levels with penalties; rather, services are "best effort" with at most an outage penalty that is far less than the business value of the service disruption or breach. This emphasis on compliance and breaches in Supplier Management is purposeful. 23 NYCRR 500 § 500.11 (p7).

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

The Internet can provide doxers with all kinds of helpful information, such as the names and positions of employees, including those who occupy key positions in the company. Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. Attacks using publicly accessible data: BEC.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Hackers have breached BriansClub ( BriansClub [. ] at ), one of the biggest black market sites, that specializes in the sale of stolen credit card data. According to the security experts Brian Krebs, who first reported the data breach, the hackers stole data of more than 26 million payment cards.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Elements of our Incapsula customer database through September 15, 2017 were exposed. “We have informed the appropriate global regulatory agencies. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

.” The company provided a list of the affected locations and the estimated windows of exposure during which the PoS malware was used to steal the guests’ card data. The company reported the card breach to the authorities and hired third-party security experts to contain and remove the malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The database includes a script named count_total.sh, which was also included in 2017’s Breach Compilation. script for sorting the data. Experts at CyberNews added the new COMB emails to their Personal Data Leak Checker. This does not appear to be a new breach, but rather the largest compilation of multiple breaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Imperva shared details on the incident it has recently suffered and how hackers obtain data on Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) customers. In August, cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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