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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

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The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

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Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned? to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches.

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Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

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com , which DomainTools.com says was registered way back in September 2018 to an individual in Nigeria. ” These domains are either administrative domains obscured by a password-protected login page, or are.top domains phishing customers of the USPS as well as postal services serving other countries.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

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Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. DigitalOcean said the MailChimp incident resulted in a “very small number” of DigitalOcean customers experiencing attempted compromises of their accounts through password resets. ”

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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

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.” This is not the first time Instagram has come for his accounts: As documented in this story in The Atlantic , some of his accounts totaling more than 1 million followers were axed in late 2018 when the platform took down 500 usernames that were stolen, resold, and used for posting memes. WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com.

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