Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. Indeed, they can abuse those keys to decrypt an organization’s data, create fraudulent identities and generate malicious certificates at will. The post How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020 appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. It’s best to verify these requests by contacting your network provider or company to establish the authenticity before providing such details. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2022

Going deep into the details, CafePress’s former owner, Residual Pumpkin Entity, was storing critical customer data such as social security numbers, passwords and other account related info in plain text and not with any authentication. In Sept’2020, PlanetArt acquired CafePress from its former parent company Shutterfly or Snapfish. .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

The unprecedented volume of unemployment insurance fraud witnessed in 2020 hasn’t abated, although news coverage of the issue has largely been pushed off the front pages by other events. Another perennial (albeit not directly related) identity theft scourge involving taxes each year is refund fraud.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. 9, 2024, U.S.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. You can also get compensated for losses related to identity theft through identity theft insurance coverage.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

That’s why maintaining password integrity helps protect our online lives and reduces the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or data loss. The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. For consumers, dealing with identity theft can involve a world of headache.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2017, KrebsOnSecurity showed how easy it is for identity thieves to undo a consumer’s request to freeze their credit file at Experian , one of the big three consumer credit bureaus in the United States. ” CreditLock users can both enable multifactor authentication and get alerts when someone tries to access their account. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The experts reported their findings to the company, but at the time of this writing, Clubhouse has yet to confirm the authenticity of the exposed data. Leak data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, such as phishing/spear-phishing attacks, identity theft, and scams.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The exposed data could expose users to multiple malicious activities, including identity theft & fraud, scams, phishing and malware attacks, and of course account abuse. Spotify announced that it is forcing the password reset for all the impacted users. . Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Spotify).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

An Elasticsearch server containing personal details of hundreds of thousands of dating site users were exposed online without authentication. Some of the notifications included in the archive contained links to the user’s profile that also contained authentication keys. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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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. The combination of prominent media-reported mega breaches and less famous identity thefts have promoted the industry to adopt passwordless authentication methods.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

This leaves victims of the data breaches vulnerable to identity theft. The data was available to anyone on the web, unsecured with passwords or any other authentication requirements. Here are five recent data breaches you may have missed. Small Business Administration. million customer accounts.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

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. Despite denials in court, Northeast Radiology released a breach notice in March 2020 that revealed Alliance Health had indeed already discovered it was exposing medical images.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020.” ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million LiveAuctioneers users.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

By 2015, Microsoft joined, and in 2020, Apple followed. Microsoft is already providing passwordless features to Azure Active Directory, and for Google, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become mandatory. See the Top Identity & Access Management tools. The Challenges of New Authentication Technologies.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Virtually every website and app uses passwords as a means of authenticating its users,” investigators wrote in the report. Different types of authentication must be required, or required in addition to a username and password.”. Credential stuffing has become a steadily popular attack tool for bad actors. They’re inconvenient.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2021

Internet crime is ever present, and with the ongoing pandemic, levels of scams and fraud were exceptionally high in 2020. A state-by-state statistical breakdown of these cases were included in an accompanying report, 2020 State Reports, that you can browse through here. that involved a victim providing a form of ID to a bad actor.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Healthcare systems store confidential healthcare information, patient' financial information, and other personal data hackers can sell or use directly for identity theft and other criminal activities. In healthcare, service availability isn’t just about the bottom line like it is for most other industries. What can we do about it?

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. Enable two-factor authentication. Most online accounts allow users to enable two-factor authentication, or 2FA, which requires someone to login in with a password and a secondary credential, like a one-time code sent to a cell phone.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. I’m going to speculate that the sudden shift to work-from-home in 2020 has led to quick decisions to meet immediate needs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Increased adoption of identity wallets for citizens . Identity theft and financial fraud increased massively over the past couple of years, with fraudsters taking advantage of vulnerable people during the pandemic to get access to their personal information and assets.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 30, 2021

In March 2020, many people began working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations that had not embarked upon the journey that is IT Modernization or that had not implemented identity and access management (IAM) struggled with business continuity efforts. Five Benefits of Single Sign-on.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A 21 year old man named David Smith, from Connecticut, allegedly figured out a way to extract large quantities of cash from drivers with a scam stretching back to 2020. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Incredibly, this means it all began when he was 18. use a FIDO 2FA device.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. Two in five small and medium businesses were impacted by ransomware in 2020. Spear Phishing.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

Supporting a modern enterprise across a distributed network and infrastructure involves the ability to validate user IDs, continuously verify authentication and device trust, and protect every application— . In fact, 86 percent of global consumers were victims of identity theft, credit/debit card fraud, or a data breach in 2020.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Specific rules of engagement for IoT Identity: Identify a naming system for IoT devices. Establish an IoT identity lifecycle. Design and deploy an authentication / authorization process. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Self-Sovereign Identity is a bold new frontier in Identity Management.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The number of publicly disclosed cybersecurity incidents affecting K-12 school systems rose by 18% in 2020 over the previous year, according to The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review report by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center and the K12 Security Information Exchange. What’s the Current Threat Landscape?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The report explains in more detail: "Since the Twitter API provides direct access to a Twitter account, there must be some form of authentication involved. Along with OAuth, Twitter API also uses controls such as app-based authentication and user-based authentication. Hence, OAuth tokens are used by the Twitter API.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector. This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Cyberscout from November 10-12, 2020 among 2,050 U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In this case, it reported that attackers accessed “a small number of” customers who fell victim to the theft of personal information and/or so-called SIM swapping attacks, which enable hackers to often bypass two-factor security authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Another report from The Identity Theft Resource Center states that the number of security compromises increased more than 68% in 2021, setting a new record. In 2020, Keyavi unveiled breakthrough technology that is shattering antiquated, preconceived IT notions about data security. million per incident.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is more than a 70% increase over 2020. LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ platform combines digital identity intelligence, behavioral analytics, external data source, case management, and machine learning to craft a top-flight fraud and risk management experience with which businesses can make better, more informed decisions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

It is currently unknown for how long the data was left unprotected, and we assume that anyone who knew what to look for could have accessed the data bucket without needing any kind of authentication during the unspecified exposure period. Who had access? Original post available on Cybernews: [link].

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