SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to SiteLock researchers and cybersecurity experts, the threat landscape will only continue to grow in 2020 and will likely bring even more new challenges with it. We’ve analyzed the current state of the industry and packaged up our top five cybersecurity predictions for 2020.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The network of data brokers that political campaigns rely on to target voters with ads is enormous, as one Washington Post reporter found in 2020, with “3,000 data points on every voter.” Escaping this data collection regime has proven difficult for most people.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The most recent data in this database is from May 2020. The data contains names, email addresses, usernames, passwords, phone numbers, addresses, company names, and additional personal information. This would be the 2nd (hacked back in 2020) major data breach for Zacks. Change your password.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

With the caveat that I have nothing but circumstantial evidence to tie this person to the one who reached out to Next Glass, there's a thread on Reddit that aligns very closely to the facts of the matter : In february 2020, I received an email from Netflix that I had signed up for an account. Not even a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

On August 25, 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which attackers stole some source code and proprietary LastPass technical information, and weeks later LastPass said an investigation revealed no customer data or password vaults were accessed.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Without proper password integrity, personal information and business data may be at risk. The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. LastPass is the most trusted name in secure password management. The impacts for businesses and consumers are enormous.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

This is one of the old passwords I used for some online services.    When I asked them to date when they might have last used that password, they believed it was was either 2020 or 2021. And another whose details appears alongside a Webex URL: Yes, it does.

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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.") As we put 2020 in our rearview mirror, and look forward to 2021 with dewy-eyed optimism, I want to take a moment to celebrate and anticipate. But we are resilient.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Astonishingly, most of the information steals cases where or are yet to be solved and surged to 55% from 30% between 2020 to 2021. Just by creating awareness among employees, using proactive security solutions, deploying MFA, using password managers can help in mitigating most of the cyber risks to a large extent. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Also read: Best Password Managers & Tools for 2022. Leveraging credentials has only become easier in recent years, according to Alicia Townsend, technology evangelist with identity management firm OneLogin. … Many password managers are free; start using them. Removing the Guesswork for Cybercriminals.

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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. Working from home resulted in additional risk management and security challenges for employees, executive leadership, and information technology (IT) teams. Password Vaults, SSO and Virtual Private Networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Keeper is the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption software covering enterprise password management, role-based access control, event tracking, dark web monitoring, secure file storage, secrets management and encrypted messaging. Keeper is SOC-2, FIPS 140-2 and ISO 27001 Certified.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Interestingly, people seem to have become more aware of the need for a secure workplace in 2020. Nexor, a service provider in the cybersecurity space, asserts that Google searches for ‘cyber defence’ surged by 126% in the first quarter of 2020. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A candy store for hackers A recent Forrester workforce survey showed that by mid 2020, 58 percent of corporations worldwide had at least half of their employees working from home, where an average of 11 devices lurk — connected to the internet. 2020 has been a year of tumultuous, unimaginable developments. And it’s not over yet.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

Dates reportedly range from 2020 to 2024. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. The exact source of the database is as yet unknown.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MAY 6, 2021

Hackers also use lists of common passwords like these to crack them instantly, so make sure you don't use anything similar to these! Check out the full list from 2020 here. Lastly, for World Password Day 2021, once you have your new passwords, you'll want a better way to remember them, and the best way is with a password manager!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Clubhouse is an invite-only social media app launched in March 2020 that allows its users to participate in audio conversations, or “rooms,” talking about various topics. Using a strong and unique password for each web service, a password manager could help you.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Google searches for DocuSign almost doubled during March 2020, and stayed there, as so many people around the world started working from home. If the phishing site is unknown, a password manager can help. This helps users from getting their passwords harvested. Keep your passwords safe! Bad signs to look for.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. Dijkxhoorn said his company first learned of the domain theft on Jan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Computers are secure than smart phones – If that was the case, then why the former encountered more malware attacks in the year 2020-21 and why is that the latter is not been used for only communications. For instance, the year 2020 revelation of Pegasus malware developed by the NSO Group of Israel.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the custom-backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since 2020. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since early 2020. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The company also said it believes that previous breaches in March 2020 and November 2021 were part of the multi-year attack campaign from the same threat actor group. In March 2020, an attacker compromised 28,000 hosting account login credentials belonging to customers and some GoDaddy employees. Then, in November 2021, 1.2

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. By 2015, Microsoft joined, and in 2020, Apple followed. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager. See the Top Password Managers.

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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. As a rule of thumb, never use the same password, or a similar one, when creating an account.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Plex Media Server, tracked as CVE-2020-5741 (CVSS score: 7.2), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. CISAgov added #CVE -2020-5741 & CVE-2021-39144 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An annual report released by NordPass states that online users are repeatedly committing the same mistake by using their own name as a password, which could put their online identity at a major risk in coming years.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

LastPass surveys estimate that 44% of users use the same or similar password, despite knowing it represents a security risk. Nearly 60% of data breaches in 2020 involved reused passwords, and this number increased to 76% for breaches for employees of the Fortune 1000. Also read : Best Password Management Software and Tools.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

The communication involved a mail server for a European energy sector organization and took place between November 2019 and at least January 5, 2020. ” reads the analysis published by Recorded Future. The activity predated the recent escalation of kinetic activity between the U.S. ” concludes the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

According to data, 2020 was a prolific year for cybercriminals who targeted these checks and benefits , hitting vulnerable people and families in their time of need. . These are examples of weak passwords that will put your accounts at risk. This way, you only have to remember one password that keeps the rest safe. . #3:

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Recently, the password management software firm disclosed a “second attack,” a threat actor used data stolen from the August security breach and combined it with information available from a third-party data breach. The LastPass data breach was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of the company updates.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Fortifications, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password managers, have come along over the past decade or so to keep password abuse in check. What a lot of people overlook is that MFA and password managers are still built on top of passwords,” Avetisov observes.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

However, from the start of 2020 onward, the malicious momentum has been building. In the 2020 State of Malware Report, Malwarebytes researchers found that Mac malware—primarily backdoors, data stealers, and cryptominers—had risen by 61 percent over the previous year. Adware accounted for another 22 percent.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The pandemic saw a surge in sextortion cases in 2020. In addition, we suggest you secure your online accounts using two-factor authentication (2FA) and a password manager. Fast forward 12 months, and the numbers continue to rise significantly. This revelation came from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

7, 2020, similarly testified that an intern set the company password on one of his or her GitHub servers back in 2017. Password hygiene should be part of employee training and cyber awareness training,” Carson continued. Many password managers are free,” said Carson.

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