Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak. The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday. ReanimationXP) November 21, 2018. pic.twitter.com/va4i8ak1HW. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, with just days left of this year, it’s time to turn our attention from reflection to preparation, looking at what 2018 has in store for the payments industry. In 2018, we’ll see these smaller markets able to innovate further, without being held back by infrastructure and processes that come with being a big industry player.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

. “It appears that someone was able to breach the server through a shell in avatar uploading in the forum software and get access to our current database dating April 2, 2020,” said Ace. The data breach notice discovered by the data breach monitoring service Under the Breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The data breach appears to be the work of a well-known threat actor named ShinyHunters , who is behind many other security breaches, including the hacks of Microsoft’s private GitHub repository, the popular digital banking app Dave.com , and Animal Jam. The service has over 28 million members.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. ” reads the Publish Service Announcement published by the IC3.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On September 19th, researchers discovered that the platform exposed sensitive user data. In 2018, business magazine Fast Company selected the company as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. Cybernews contacted the company for an official comment but received no reply at the time of writing.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

APIs are used by web services to enable online apps and/or external partners to retrieve internal data, typically utilizing some type of authentication tokens. "In T-Mobile did not reveal exactly how the threat actor accessed and exploited its API, but clearly they found a week link in the ID authentication process.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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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. “HSBC became aware of online accounts being accessed by unauthorized users between October 4, 2018 and October 14, 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. The costs that follow a data breach are trending upward year over year. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. TLS, he says, is increasingly being used to cloak a wide array of the operational steps behind the most damaging attacks of the moment, namely ransomware attacks and massive data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Thankfully the survey reveals some methods that respondents would like to see, including multi-factor authentication. While digital government is at the heart of future societal and economic growth for all of the countries involved in the survey, significant government data breaches have occurred. million customer records.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

terabyte of stolen data. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The software includes illegal Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and several cracked games.” “The data was collected from 3.25 The database includes 6.6

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2019

For its part, the United Kingdom incorporated GDPR into its Data Protection Act 2018 3 and the NIS Directive into its NIS Regulations 2018 4 , a political choice showing that the UK strategically desires to be aligned and, to a certain extent, compliant with the new EU regulations. Governing the transfer of data.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The problem stemmed from an authentication weakness in a USPS Web component known as an “application program interface,” or API — basically, a set of tools defining how various parts of an online application such as databases and Web pages should interact with one another. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit disclosed a security breach, the company told its customers that hackers have stolen $48.5 According to the data breach notification published by the company, hackers stole 342,000 in Ethereum (ETH), approximately $48.5 million in crypto-currency from its hot wallet. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The huge trove of data contains personal details for 10,683,188 former hotel guests, including full names, home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and dates of birth. According to MGM Resorts, the data was old, none of the customers in the archive stayed at the hotel past 2017. MGM Resorts Dump (source ZDNet).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. In our 2018 Data Threat Report-Retail Edition , we found 50% of respondents reported a data breach this past year, so it goes without saying that the holiday shopping season is a prime time for cyber criminals to target both retailers and consumers alike. No phishing here.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

That’s how they’re going to transfer data in, hopefully, a secure channel to pass information back and forth with each other.”. However, APIs are also more frequently the source of data breaches and other cyber incidents. No one really knows exactly how many APIs are out there. This dynamic came into play at the U.S.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. We are all weary of the endless cycle of hacks and data breaches and we’re increasingly blaming businesses that have been compromised rather than the hackers themselves.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

” The official description of CVE-2015-2862 says a would-be attacker would need to be already authenticated to the server for the exploit to work. “This is worse because the CVE calls for an authenticated user,” Holden said. “This was not.” “It was deprecated but left up,” Sanders said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Such breaches, unfortunately, have become common. This attack marked its fifth breach since 2018 and, in fact, the company suffered yet another breach – albeit apparently a small one — late in December. In the big picture in security, improvement of IRPs is hardly all companies must do to mitigate cyber breaches.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

— patrick wardle (@patrickwardle) July 18, 2018. ZDNet contacted many users that confirmed the authenticity of the content of the file. The data appears to date back to 2013, when Kim Dotcom launched the service. Hunt believes the hackers collected the credentials from other data breaches (credential stuffing).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The advertising for the sale of the huge trove of data was published in the popular Dream Market black marketplace, data are available for less than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin. MyHeritage, MyFitnessPal) for some of them it is the first time that the security community was informed of their breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2021

The adoption of the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) legislation in Europe in 2018 paved the way for big changes in banking with regards to the ownership of customer data. To try and reassure citizens on this point, EU regulators are insisting that strong two-factor authentication be enabled for all PSD2-related transactions.

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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The 2018 State of IoT Security study took a poll of 700 organizations in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan and found IoT is well on its way to be to be woven into all facets of daily business operations. Nearly six times as likely to have experienced IoT-based Data Breaches. Tiered performances. Interconnected security.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The leaked data suggest that Snatch is one of several ransomware groups using paid ads on Google.com to trick people into installing malware disguised as popular free software, such as Microsoft Teams , Adobe Reader , Mozilla Thunderbird , and Discord. Image: Spamhaus The founder of the Swiss anti-abuse website abuse.ch

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2021

Require two-factor or multi-factor authentication for any and all remote access to the company’s computer systems.". Court documents list a number of ways Colonial allegedly failed at cybersecurity. Ensure regular, thorough cybersecurity audits.". For the rest of the list, read the EZ court documents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

While you may disagree, data breach studies show that employees and negligence are the most typical causes of security breaches, yet these prevalent issues are least discussed. According to another study by CybSafe, human errors have been responsible for over 90% of data breaches in 2020.

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