The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). In the report’s findings, stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities are the top reasons for web breaches. This year, these were the top reasons for web breaches. Authentication bypass. Privilege escalation.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 5, 2022

Use complex passwords with at least eight characters.? . ? . I personally use a password manager that will store and inject passwords.? There are many good ones on the market but be sure to protect this personal password vault with multifactor authentication.? However, they are not a silver bullet.

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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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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.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. If it says a password you use has breached, you know to never use it again. For starters, change your password. ‘Have I Been Pwned?’. Have I Been Pwned?’

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Our passwords are the gatekeepers to our digital lives, from online banking and shopping accounts to social media platforms, a significant portion of our online accessibility is determined by the strength (and memorability) of our passwords. To create a more secure and convenient future, authentication must become passwordless.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The list of passwords was compiled with the support of independent researchers specializing in data breach analysis., the study is based on the analysis of a 4TB database containing passwords across 50 countries. Check password strength Check password strength – regularly assess your password health.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

According to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report , credentials are the type of data cybercriminals most want to steal in a breach. Meanwhile, a quarter report that they’ve used generic passwords like “password” and “ABC123.”All Let’s take a closer look at a few of those habits.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

The three-year-old high-severity flaw is a deserialization of untrusted data in Plex Media Server on Windows, a remote, authenticated attacker can trigger it to execute arbitrary Python code. CISAgov added #CVE -2020-5741 & CVE-2021-39144 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

now you are in my @home_assistant setup also :) Thanks @troyhunt pic.twitter.com/4d4Qxnlazl — Jón Ólafs (@jonolafs) March 3, 2021 Awesome! Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Which means you don’t have to worry about data breaches, post-its, machine-in-the-middle attacks, or any other way it could be discovered or fall into the wrong hands, because the wrong hands are welcome to it: It is useless to them. Authenticators. All of this happens on devices called "authenticators".

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

From 2019 to 2021, the healthcare industry saw an increase in breaches and leaks of more than 50% , according to the Healthcare Cybersecurity Report by the Herjavec Group. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks targeting healthcare have increased dramatically. The consequences of these attacks can be severe.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 8, 2022

According to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 61% of all breaches were a result of stolen credentials. Founded by the IDSA and National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) in 2021, Identity Management Day , is an annual reminder about the dangers of casually or improperly securing and managing digital identities.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

What these names have in common is that they have all experienced at least one breach in 2013—the year when threat actors started targeting organizations across industries to either steal data for profit or leak them to “teach companies a lesson about cybersecurity.” Do they even know they have been breached?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

Thu, 01/07/2021 - 17:10. Modern architectures and applications place additional demands on access management tools. This blog will introduce access management evaluation criteria guidelines and discuss what features you should look for and what vendors to consider for your next employee access management solution.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

The social media platform, however, is of a different opinion on the matter: “Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

DigitalOcean severs ties with Mailchimp after that incident , which briefly prevented the hosting firm from communicating with its customers or processing password reset requests. A cybercriminal starts selling account data scraped from 400 million Twitter users , including email addresses and in many cases phone numbers.

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Identity IQ

MAY 9, 2023

Here are some startling statistics from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): Servicemembers, veterans, and their family members reported nearly 50,000 cases of identity theft to the FTC in 2021. Data breaches at government agencies may lead to the sale of servicemembers’ personal information online.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DataPrivacy pic.twitter.com/IFgFGA8meU — Jiten Jain (@jiten_jain) July 24, 2021. While we were not able to confirm if the database is genuine, the possibility that a threat actor could combine leaked Facebook profile data with other leaks is by no means zero. Change the password of your Clubhouse and Facebook accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Our industry is really good about posting about what has gone wrong, highlighting the latest data breaches, vulnerabilities and threat vectors. 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.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

Unfortunately, 2021 is proving to be similarly rotten for Apple. While Apple didn’t comment on whether this particular vulnerability had been discovered by cybercriminals, the company released patches for three separate security bugs that were being actively exploited in January 2021.

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