Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Predators, disturbing content, identity theft attempts, and other things you wouldn’t let them experience in real life are all waiting for them. Worse, the Internet, the rise of smartphones, and the culture of social media allow us to access these things from anywhere. Shockingly, 1 in 5 U.S. Shockingly, 1 in 5 U.S.

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Internet Internet Media Accountability 82

The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

At the risk of oversimplifying: without a foundation of strong identity, there can be no real security. We know that intuitively just from our experiences online, where phishing attacks and identity theft are rampant – often taking advantage of weak identities like user names and passwords, or Social Security Numbers.

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Internet Internet IoT Architecture 40

Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

A freeze makes it much harder for identity thieves to open new lines of credit in your name. 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. Consumers in every U.S. But Equifax has changed a few things since then.

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Accountability Identity Theft Authentication Passwords 270

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. 1 November 2017. Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Before the.

Computers and Electronics 209

Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Internet Internet 209

Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cryptocurrency retreat will make ransomware less profitable: The gold rush for bitcoin and similar currencies went hand-in-hand with a plague of ransomware: Bitcoin’s peak at close to $20,000 in value in 2017 coincided with a 400% increase in ransomware attacks.

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Cybersecurity Identity Theft Passwords Password Management 157

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The oldest entry goes as far back as 2017, and it is unclear how long this instance had been open prior to the Cybernews discovery. The dataset also contained payment logs with emails, dates, bank names, phone numbers, and internet protocol (IP) addresses. The 3.9GB-strong database held information from 2017 onwards.

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Ransomware Passwords Encryption Identity Theft 93

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

After the data breach, HSBC Bank enhanced the authentication process for HSBC Personal Internet Banking, adding an extra layer of security. The back is also providing impacted customers with a complimentary year subscription to a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service provided by Identity Guard.

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Banking Data breaches Identity Theft Accountability 83

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. Postal Service , or their wireless phone provider and/or Internet Service Provider (ISP). Maybe this was once sound advice.

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Scams Wireless Phishing Banking 276

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. NotPetya shook the entire world in June 2017. A firewall can be effective in stopping the spread of worms through network endpoints.

Cyber threats 113

Cyber threats Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 113

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Internet of Things, or IoT devices, already represent a mature technological industry. households had an estimated 11 internet-connected devices per household.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. NotPetya shook the entire world in June 2017. A firewall can be effective in stopping the spread of worms through network endpoints.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 107

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

The NY AG’s report cited a 2017 Ponemon Institute report that found that businesses were losing about $6 million a year to credential stuffing attacks due to application downtime, lost customers and increased IT costs.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 117

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. For example, in July of 2017, the data of 14 million Verizon users was breached due to incorrectly configured buckets. Identity theft.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. 2015 — Anthem — Anthem reports theft of personal information on up to 78.8

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” variant of ransomware called “ WannaCry ” spread swiftly in 2017 and 2018, reaching over 100 countries and infecting over 200,000 computers.

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Cybersecurity IoT Artificial Intelligence Cyber threats 78

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Doxing is a term that first originated alongside the boom of the internet and black hat culture. When Attack Details August 2017 After the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, online users misidentified an attending protester as University of Arkansas assistant professor Kyle Quinn. Notable Doxing Attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2018

It should be different from other passwords you use elsewhere on the internet. ” It isn’t the first time that Instagram faces such kind of problems, in September 2017 6 million celebrities Instagram High-Profiles data were offered for sale on DoxaGram website. We advise you pick a strong password. and &).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Case studies of data breaches in the financial services industry In 2017 Equifax announced the most significant data breaches in the financial service industry that exposed personal information such as names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s licenses numbers of 147 million people.

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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. In a typical internet hoax manner, crypto scam sites offered visitors to get rich quick by paying a small fee. Cybercriminals chased seed phrases, used for recovering access to virtual funds.

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