Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Marriott disclosed a new security breach detected at the end of February 2020 that could impact up to 5.2 Marriott International discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 5.2 million hotel guests, the incident was detected at the end of February 2020. million of its guests.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

Identity and user authentication continue to be a concern for IT managers. It’s still entirely too easy to steal someone’s credentials, which is why identity theft continues to be a primary cause of data breaches. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Earlier this month, UMass Memorial Health alerted patients who were affected by the hospital data breach. In a notice to affected patients, the hospital disclosed that an unauthorized person accessed employee emails between June 2020 and January 2021 but was unable to say the level to which the emails were viewed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

Post by USDoD on a breach forum The leaked database is said to include full names, dates of birth, known aliases, addresses, arrest and conviction dates, sentences, and much more. Dates reportedly range from 2020 to 2024. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). The exact source of the database is as yet unknown.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2021

The Global Year in Breach 2020 has shined a light on a few things - like how multifactor authentication is a security superstar. The post Lessons Learned from the Global Year in Breach: Multifactor Authentication Beats Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4 Meanwhile, threat actors’ siege on web applications surged 62 percent in 2020 vs. 2019: Akamai observed nearly 6.3 Q: The scale of ‘attacks’ in 2020 is astronomical: 6.3 The other driver is older data breaches that are sorted and dropped into scanners.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. The list goes into detail and shows how many times a password was used, exposed in a data breach, and how long it would take to guess the password in a brute force attack, where automated attempts to login are underway.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

The data in question had apparently been compromised prior to the current owners, Jumpstart, acquiring Neopets. In 2020, there were claims of ways to potentially gain access to user accounts. At this point, we’d typically suggest also making use of two-factor authentication to keep your login more secure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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Hot for Security

MAY 14, 2021

Blackmailers are having a field day capitalizing on victims of the Ledger data leak from July 2020. “You know the ’ledger‘ data has been leaked,” the message reads. “And these data are now in my hands.” ” The extortionist is referring to the 2020 hack and data dump that followed.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 14, 2020

The post IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is the Slow Motion Data Breach Nobody notices appeared first on The. » Related Stories Resolve to fix your Online Security Mess in 2020. Imagining the Future of Authentication. Read the whole entry. » Here’s how.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45 million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Nonprofits are equally at risk, and often lack cybersecurity measures.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

A sign is displayed at the Google outdoor booth during exhibitor setups for CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Google announced that it will automatically enroll users in multifactor authentication – what they are calling two-step verification. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How to Choose the Right Access Management, Authentication and SSO Solution. Thu, 11/19/2020 - 06:33. Not Everyone Needs the Same Level of Authentication. At the same time, the leading cause of breaches are compromised credentials. Authentication is key to security. Authentication is key to security.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

IBM’s recent Cost of a Data Breach report revealed that data breaches cost companies an average of $4.35 million in 2022, up 12.7% This report also noted that 79% of critical infrastructure organizations didn’t deploy a zero-trust architecture.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With the 2020 presidential election approaching, cybersecurity deserves to be a core issue for candidates. Each factor we investigated falls into one of four buckets: the candidate’s cybersecurity platform, their cybersecurity actions, their privacy and data practices, and email security factors.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 9, 2020

Weak, stolen or reused passwords are the root of 8 in 10 data breaches. Fixing the data breach problem means abandoning passwords for something more secure. But what does passwordless authentication even look like? The post Eliminate. Read the whole entry. » Here’s how.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. billion active monthly users. According to a Jan.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

The LastPass data breach was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of the company updates. The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers. ” reads the advisory published by Plex.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not a discussion we should be having in 2020, a time of unprecedented regulatory provisions designed to prevent precisely the sort of behaviour I'm going to describe in this post. pic.twitter.com/YT0w2jRX9f — surebet247 (@surebet247) January 4, 2020. 1042994a] (@ChrisSylcox) January 7, 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019. Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In general, it’s hard to strictly separate the use of devices for work purposes— in a 2020 survey by Malwarebytes, we found that the majority of people do use work devices for personal use. Okta administrators are now forced to re-authenticate if we detect a network change. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Make the default data storage settings private. million records exposed.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The mother of all data leaks, dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches” (COMB) by its uploader, includes unique email and password combinations from more than 250 previous data breaches, such as Netflix, LinkedIn and Exploit.in. Remember, the information may be stale or old, but user data has no expiration date.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Verizon just released its 14th edition of the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) covering 2020’s foray into cybersecurity. It’s fair to say that 2020 was impossible to predict, but had a significant impact. The DBIR states that phishing, ransomware, web app attacks dominated data breaches in 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

‘Zero Trust’ is a kind of corporate policy that helps in preventing successful data breaches by weeding out the factor of ‘Trust’ from the corporate network architecture. David McKeown, the DoDs CSO, has confirmed the news and added that a CIO will lead the office, followed by a yet to be named senior executive/s.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

According to a Ponemon Institute study, the data breach cost for healthcare organizations without encryption was $380 per record, compared to $230 for those with encryption. A study by the Ponemon Institute revealed that organizations using SIEM solutions experienced a 47% reduction in the average time to detect a breach.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto. Yeah, it's legit guys.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I think we can all agree that 2020 was anything but a typical year (and a poster child for Murphy’s law "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.") Our industry is really good about posting about what has gone wrong, highlighting the latest data breaches, vulnerabilities and threat vectors. But we are resilient.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has opened up an investigation into the probe and linked the current data possession claim related to a massive data breach that took place last month. The post Hacker wants Elon Musk or Twitter to buy back stolen data appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition indicates that we have reached a tipping point. Whatever the nature of the data stored in the cloud, it needs to be secured.

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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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Town Sports International lost the battle with the Coronavirus outbreak and filed for bankruptcy on September 14, 2020.

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