Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2020

US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over 2019 data breach. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has imposed an $80 million fine to the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp over 2019 data breach.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. District Court in Seattle today and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, 2019.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our updated research looks at how data breaches happened, what academia published, what the news covered, and what people Googled. The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." However, the damage seems to go far beyond the accounts with reused passwords. less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. The data indicates that attackers are going after larger data sets, rather than relying on getting their data from a larger number of smaller attacks. We found that of the websites we scanned, 1.4%

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2022

Though the tools and technologies have improved enormously in the last couple of decades, enterprises remain under attack. With the acceleration in digital spending, there’s been an increase in related cyberthreats, like account takeover. ATO is often the source of data breaches, theft, and other fraudulent activities.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

There are a few random, non-technology businesses tied to the phone number listed for the Hendersonville address, and the New Mexico address was used by several no-name web hosting companies. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. The website Domainnetworks[.]com and another address in Santa Fe, N.M.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. A little more surprising, however, is the similarities between breaches across industries and organizations. What keeps executives up at night? Different Industries, Same Causes.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 28, 2021

A crucial part of the Russians’ success was their ability to move through these organizations by compromising cloud and local network identity systems to then access cloud accounts and pilfer emails and files. Cloud weaknesses were also critical in a 2019 breach at Capital One.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” For more on this dynamic, please see The Value of a Hacked Email Account.

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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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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter Bitcoin Scam In July of 2020, a number of high-profile celebrity and brand accounts tweeted out messages stating that all Bitcoin sent to their wallets for a period of time would be returned twofold—if someone sent $1000, they would receive $2000 back. In the end, it cost Cisco $1.4

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

So, your business has just suffered a data breach and it’s time to dig deep in your pockets to pay all the resulting expenses. Indeed, with liability limits ranging from $1 million to $5 million or more, cyber insurance policies can cover a good chunk of the damage caused by a data breach. How is cyber insurance priced?

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. The back of the napkin math isn’t pretty.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion lost to fraud in 2019. Identity theft happens when someone uses your personal or financial information — like your Social Security or financial account number — to commit fraud. Data breaches often make headlines, so this is one method you’ve likely heard about before. Their total losses exceeded $3.3 Elder Fraud.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The breach is the second major cybersecurity incident to hit MGM Resorts in recent years. In 2019, the company was the victim of a data breach that exposed the personal information of about 142 million guests. Personal information is another lucrative target, as evidenced by MGM's previous breach in 2019.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

Fact: A data haul of more than 40 million records belonging to ShareThis users was put up for sale on a dark web marketplace in February 2019. GB of leaked data included unique email addresses, names, usernames, hashed passwords, and additional profile information such as gender, birth date and addresses. Find out now.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. A marketing slide deck promoting i-SOON’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) capabilities.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

The rapid deployment and expansion of cloud technology over the past year has led to a dangerous rise in misconfigurations —a vulnerability that cybercriminals are only too eager to exploit. These tools must deliver visibility into potential security gaps, attack path vulnerabilities, exposed credentials, and suspicious account activity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

According to Tech.co , a 2021 study found that users now need to track 100 passwords across their various web accounts. That ’ s an increase of 25% since 2019 when the average number of passwords was just 70-80. Other times, they simply reuse the same password across multiple web accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. The hitch, of course, is that password-enabled account logins are too deeply engrained in legacy network infrastructure. million on average.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

“Fortunately, TGH’s monitoring systems and experienced technology professionals effectively prevented encryption, which would have significantly interrupted the hospital’s ability to provide care for patients.” There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Organizations with weak cybersecurity have been severely punished with cyber-attacks, data breaches, and huge losses in the past. According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Encryption technology in VPNs helps conceal the user’s data.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“The Company has also incurred less than $10 million in one-time expenses in the third quarter related to the cybersecurity issue, which consisted of technology consulting services, legal fees and expenses of other third party advisors.” .” reads the 8-K report filed with SEC.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is really an embarrassing incident, ZoneAlarm forum site has suffered a data breach exposing data of its discussion forum users. ZonaAlarm , the popular security software firm owned by Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion in 2019 to $815.4 Cybercriminals everywhere matched the uptick with clever new schemes to filch payment card data and defraud victims of billions of dollars. is clearly failing to protect cardholder account details effectively in today’s environment. Protect stored account data. In fact, the U.S.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence. LastPass pricing.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. Sources say PCM discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. El Segundo, Calif. PCM has nearly 4,000 employees, more than 2,000 customers, and generated approximately $2.2

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