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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. What else do we know about the cause of these incidents?

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Krebs on Security

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

Bill said this criminal group averages between five and ten million email authentication attempts daily, and comes away with anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 of working inbox credentials. “For context, our research indicates that multi-factor authentication prevents more than 99.9%

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Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

Krebs on Security

” On April 5, 2021, Everlynn posted a new sales thread to the cybercrime forum cracked[.]to This is very illegal and you will get raided if you don’t use a vpn. Most govs use [Microsoft] Outlook, so it’s more difficult because theres usually some sort of multi-factor authentication. But not all have it.”