Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It operates in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational co-operation with the United Kingdom. At this time it is unclear for how long the data remained exposed online without protection.

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Identity Theft Education Phishing Scams 91

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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Cybersecurity Data breaches Identity Theft Cyber Attacks 119

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) the number of data breaches reported in 2021 eclipsed that of 2020 by as early as October. Even prior to the pandemic, back in 2018, IBM revealed a startling 424% year-on-year increase in data breaches due to cloud misconfigurations caused by human error.

Risk 144

Risk Identity Theft Digital transformation Data breaches 144

Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

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Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Spammers and email scam artists also could have a field day with this USPS vulnerability, said Robert Hansen , chief technology officer at Bit Discovery , a security firm in Austin, Texas. In July, identity theft protection service LifeLock corrected an information disclosure flaw that exposed the email address of millions of subscribers.

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Accountability Authentication Identity Theft Advertising 262

The Security Ledger

APRIL 30, 2019

households, exposing sensitive data and putting people at risk for identity theft, ransomware and other cybercrimes. » Related Stories Veeam mishandles Own Data, exposes 440M Customer E-mails Report: Bad Bots sent One in Five Web Requests in 2018 Mysterious Trisis Malware Strikes Again.

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Identity Theft VPN Cybercrime Ransomware 40

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyberwarfare, cyberdefense, and cryptography. And as stated by a Harris Poll conducted in 2018 , more than 60 million Americans are affected by identity theft every year. Implementing a system of threat indicators and blocking mechanisms.

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Cyber threats Mobile B2B Threat Detection 98

Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

In November 2018, Diachenko also found roughly 57 million records of American citizens from one unsecured instance apparently belonging to a Canadian data firm. The Brazilian government and a fitness company experienced similar leaks in late 2018 as well.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Another day, another breach. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity.

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Identity Theft IoT Technology Encryption 89

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identity Theft. Data Breach. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Ransomware detections on machines jumped 369% (yes, three-hundred-sixty-nine percent) vs. 2018. First, however, let's look at the top 15 cyber threats organizations face right now, according to the report: Malware. Web-based Attacks.

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Cyber threats Insurance Cyber Insurance Ransomware 108

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach.

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Risk Digital transformation IoT Identity Theft 48

Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The credit reporting bureau Experian is facing a backlash for its recent failures to protect customer data. . An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Takeaways .

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Risk Identity Theft Data breaches VPN 218

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In fact, “the number of publicly reported data compromises in the U.S. through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” Ransomware is not new, and it has been around for decades.A 2022 will be more of the same.

Cybersecurity 78

Cybersecurity IoT Artificial Intelligence Cyber threats 78

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks.

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Backups Passwords Identity Theft Malware 98

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By gaining a deeper understanding of application security, companies can take the necessary steps and actions to safeguard their valuable assets and reduce the risk of devastating data breaches. How Does Application Security Work? Application security works through a combination of security controls and best practices.

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Mobile Computers and Electronics Risk DDOS 94

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It applies to any organization that manages data of 10,000 or more U.S. It was enacted to prevent and mitigate identity theft, provide notice of security breaches, and enhance law enforcement assistance. At this point, almost every state has data privacy laws. citizens during any 12 months.

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Cybersecurity Data privacy Identity Theft Healthcare 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. And yet, according to Norton , data breaches for 2019 included 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches, 4.1 authentication technologies.

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Digital transformation Authentication Identity Theft Passwords 108

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. These concerns were apparently validated by a 2019 incident where deepfaked audio technology was used to scam a CEO out of $243,000.

IoT 130

IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. A DSW data breach also exposes transaction information from 1.4 Dateline Cybercrime .

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135