Remove 2020 Remove Accountability Remove Backups
article thumbnail

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released software patches to plug at least 129 security holes in its Windows operating systems and supported software, by some accounts a record number of fixes in one go for the software giant. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches. CERT on Active Exploitation of CVE-2020-0796.

article thumbnail

‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

Krebs on Security

Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350 , which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request. .” Thankfully, I was able to restore from a recent backup.

DNS 347
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?

Krebs on Security

Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. billion active monthly users. According to a Jan. Image: @UnderTheBreach.

Mobile 358
article thumbnail

Dental group lied through teeth about data breach, fined $350,000

Malwarebytes

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. In October 2020, Westend Dental was attacked by the Medusa Locker ransomware group.

article thumbnail

12 Online Resolutions for 2021

Adam Levin

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected–and do the best we can in a rapidly changing world. Don’t re-use passwords: Yes, keeping track of passwords for all of your accounts can be a chore, but using the same password means that one breached account can be used to others that use the same user credentials.

VPN 245
article thumbnail

How BeerAdvocate Learned They'd Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

This comes as no surprise to regular followers, nor should it come as a surprise that I maintain an Untappd account, logging my beer experiences as I (used to ??) Someone had registered a new Netflix account with my email / password associated with my BeerAdvocate account. I love beer. You'll never believe what happened next.

Passwords 359
article thumbnail

What to Do If and When Zoom Goes Down Again

Adam Levin

In 2020 alone, we’ve seen ransomware attacks bring the operations of international corporations and high-powered law firms to a standstill. Consider researching the alternatives to Zoom to have a backup service in place if there’s another outage. Competing services such as Skype and Google Meet offer free versions.

Backups 246