SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. This is valuable personal data that can be used for anything from targeted advertising to identity theft in extreme cases. However, those aren’t the only ways to gain unauthorized access to database content.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Impact on patients The breach has caused widespread anxiety and concern among Fred Hutch patients. Many worry about the potential misuse of their sensitive information, including identity theft and medical fraud. The incident underscores the critical dependence of healthcare institutions on reliable technology and data security.

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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. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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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 109

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.

Ransomware 86

Ransomware Computers and Electronics Passwords Identity Theft 86

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

Adam Levin

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A growing trend in employment benefits is employee-paid or voluntary cyber awareness programs coupled with identity theft resolution and identity monitoring services. Training and sound cybersecurity policies can fill in the gaps where technology often fails. The numbers are grim. Cybersecurity is a team sport.

Identity Theft 107

Identity Theft Data breaches Cybersecurity VPN 107

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The indictments come on the heels of a conference held by US government officials this week that detailed the breadth of hacking attacks involving the theft of intellectual property by Chinese entities. “The FBI has about a thousand investigations involving China’s attempted theft of U.S.-based

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identity Theft. Data Breach. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Fileless malware attacks increased by 265% during the first half of 2019. In some of the 2019 incidents , the ransom or the costs of recovery was covered by such contracts. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. Data breaches cost an average of $3.9 worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. Businesses and consumers in the U.S. lost more than $3.5 Ransomware cost businesses and individuals nearly $9 million in the U.S.

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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 .

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

Dave Bittner: [00:01:51] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Monday, July 22, 2019. The company's website was defaced with a leering Yoba face, and the attackers claimed to have stolen some 7 1/2 terabytes of data.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Penetration Testing Government Education 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

Dave Bittner: [00:01:51] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Monday, July 22, 2019. The company's website was defaced with a leering Yoba face, and the attackers claimed to have stolen some 7 1/2 terabytes of data.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Penetration Testing Government Education 40

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

Dave Bittner: [00:01:51] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Monday, July 22, 2019. The company's website was defaced with a leering Yoba face, and the attackers claimed to have stolen some 7 1/2 terabytes of data.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Penetration Testing Government Education 40