eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. It is used to avoid unauthorized data access, cyber-attacks, and identity theft. The post Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2022 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

file exposed information that attackers could employ for lateral movement within the ministry’s systems, potentially escalating to anything from account takeover to a ransomware attack. file was indexed by IoT search engines was in March 2022, meaning that the data was exposed for at least 15 months.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Fake donation sites started popping up after the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2022, pretending to accept money as aid to Ukraine. The pandemic The COVID-19 theme had lost relevance by late 2022 as the pandemic restrictions had been lifted in most countries. “Promotional campaigns by major banks” were a popular bait in 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. 2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022. It can cost a company millions of dollars, or lead to individual identity theft and invasion of privacy.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2023

News of data dumps is often scary as the possibilities of identity theft, account takeovers, user de-anonymization, and other online data-driven threats rear their ugly heads. Privacy Affairs claims data in the set can be used in social engineering attacks and doxxing. How bad is this?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

It begins: On April 5, 2022, Kaiser Permanente discovered that an unauthorized party gained access to an employee’s emails. It’s not every day you manage to compromise an account with access to so much data. This included resetting the employee’s password for the email account where unauthorized activity was detected.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Navigating the internet in 2022 is more dangerous than ever for Australian netizens. Australian Mobile Cybersecurity in 2022. Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. How Can Social Engineering Affect the Current State of Security in Australia?

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The exposure of emails and passwords is dangerous, as malicious actors could use them for credential stuffing to try to access other accounts the victim might be using. One of them is identity theft. Threat actors might also exploit La Malle Postale’s credibility among its clients in social engineering attacks.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The letter is dated January 1, 2022, which might make some wonder why the organization waited nearly three months to notify its patients, but there is a legitimate reason: "The DOJ requested that Broward Health briefly delay this notification to ensure that the notification does not compromise the ongoing law enforcement investigation.".

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Wed, 08/03/2022 - 10:48. 230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. Some of those sensitive actions include reading Direct Messages, retweeting, deleting messages, liking messages, and getting account settings.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services HHS Breach Portal states that since the beginning of 2022, there have been at least 368 breaches affecting over 25.1 Regular backups and multi-factor authentication should also be consistently enforced for all accounts. million patients.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2023

Stealing personal information and extorting victims for money, these scams leverage fake job postings, sites or portals, and forms, wrapped in social engineering to attract job seekers. Scammers may also ask for Social Security numbers and bank account information for depositing paychecks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the EU, lawmakers are working on the Data Act , meant to further protect sensitive data, as well as a comprehensive AI legal strategy that might put a curb on a range of invasive machine-learning technologies and require greater accountability and transparency. Desperate to stop data leaks, people will insure against them.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Compromised or stolen credentials is the second most common type of cybersecurity incident accounting for 27% of reported breaches, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). Duo reported 13 billion authentications worldwide in 2022, an increase of 41% from the year past.

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