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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

But it's exactly what it sounds like and on Thursday next week, I'll be up in front of US congress on the other side of the world testifying about the impact of data breaches. For a bit more context, I've been chatting with folks from the House Energy and Commerce Committee for a while now about the mechanics of data breaches.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For the last 4 years, I've also run a free service called Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which aggregates data breaches and presently contains about 4.8 million people presently subscribe to those notifications and I've had up to 3 million people visit the site in a single day after a major data breach.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Department of Justice just filed federal charges against Uber's former Chief Security Offier (CSO) for allegedly covering up a company data breach and bribing hackers to stay silent about the attack. SecureWorld wrote about this case in Uber Data Breach: 3 Things Revealed in Testimony to Congress.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But it's equally important that we acknowledge exemplary handling of data breaches when they occur because that's behaviour that should be encouraged. Last week, someone reached out and shared a number of data breaches with me. Breaches I'd never seen before. They had to download and review the data.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. 🤣", the internet quipped.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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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'm also the creator of the data breach aggregation service known as "have i been pwned".

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

We interviewed Chris Novak from Verizon's incident response team at RSA 2017 and talked about what the company has learned about securing the Internet of Things.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. What if you were dialed the entire Internet? But to find that information back in 2014, he had to scan the Internet, the entire internet and that was a very noisy process.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 cybercrime damages will amount to a staggering $6 trillion annually starting in 2021. 7 million in 2017 to a new high of US$13. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. As the Internet of Things moves out of science fiction and into reality, the security needs of businesses and individuals will continue to grow.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

News of the SolarWinds data breach, where it's software management updates were hacked, rocked the cyber world. And just like in the SolarWinds data breach, the top suspect nation-state is Russia. The first compromises identified by ANSSI date from the end of 2017 and continued until 2020.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach. ” Part of the difficulty in patching against the Log4Shell attack is identifying all of the vulnerable web applications, said Johannes Ullrich , an incident handler and blogger for the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 8, 2019

Data breaches relating to unsecured Internet of Things devices have jumped by more than 10 percent since 2017, suggesting security efforts aren't keeping pace with the growth of the Internet of Things, a new study finds. Related Stories Unsecured Database Exposes Data of 80M U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 19, 2017

On May 15, 2017, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report entitled “Internet of Things: Status and implications of an […].

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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. The RCMP arrested Bloom in December 2017, and said he made approximately $250,000 selling hacked data, which included information on 37 million user accounts leaked in the 2015 Ashley Madison breach.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

Following the 2016 breach, National Bank hired cybersecurity forensics firm Foregenix to investigate. The company determined the hacking tools and activity appeared to come from Russian-based Internet addresses. The bank’s total reported loss from that breach was $1,833,984. Between Jan. THE LAWSUIT.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly. GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. In response to the security breach, the United States subsidiary of HSBC blocked access to online accounts to prevent abuses. Security Affairs – HSBC bank, data breach).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Company officials at Capital One Financial Corp ought to have a crystal clear idea of what to expect next — after admitting to have allowed a gargantuan data breach. The Capital One breach, it seems to me, vividly highlights the depth and breadth of the Internet underground. The technology is available.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Compromised logins continue to facilitate cyber attacks at all levels, from phishing ruses to credential stuffing to enabling hackers to probe deep inside of a breached network. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Since then , he has been campaigning for the UK government to implement the “proof of age” access to pornography, covered by the Digital Economy Act (DEA) 2017. However, DEA 2017 suffered from a series of delays and amendments , before being abandoned entirely in October 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

. “As well as overturning Assange’s asylum status, Ecuador stripped him of the nationality he was given in 2017 under the government of Moreno’s predecessor Rafael Correa.” At the time of publishing there is no news of data breach.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Depending on your level of comfort with your internet service provider (ISP) – and what country you live in – setting one up for your household may be a smart bet. Think of a VPN as a tunnel your internet traffic travels through to keep nosy onlookers from being able to see what you’re doing online. The VPN basics.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Doxing is a term that first originated alongside the boom of the internet and black hat culture. More niche examples of doxing include: Breach Doxing : the unintentional dropping of documents via a data breach or leak. In addition to popular websites, users must also consider data breaches and existing digital accounts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017). That search shows the user bo3dom registered at ipmart-forum.com with the email address devrian27@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Vilnius, Lithuania. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. SSN and DOB data is widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground on almost all U.S. Consumers in every U.S.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 17, 2017

NIST is accepting public comment on the new draft guidance through July 7, 2017. At the same time, emerging threats, such as last year’s Mirai DDoS attacks, highlight the critical need to develop and apply guidance to maintain the cybersecurity of devices and the ecosystems into which they are deployed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts. 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.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I quickly informed my contact at All American and asked them to let me know the moment they confirmed the data was removed from the Internet. Calling it a breach seems a bit of a stretch; it probably would be more accurate to describe the incident as a data leak. THE DARK OVERLORD. WHO IS SOUNDCARD?

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