Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2019

The data breach of Capital One was big news, but it was also a familiar story: a major financial company with the budget and means to secure its data didn’t bother to do so, and the personal information of over a hundred million of its customers and applicants was exposed. Neither were boring.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This summer, several events that were postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic took place. In this article we will tell you more about what was popular with children this summer. News media. “News media” was the fifth most popular category (3.54%). How we collect our statistics. Website categorization.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2021

There’s been a number of scams targeting fans of major upcoming video game releases over the last week or two. Enterprising phishers are distributing fake mails offering “Early access invitations” to play Village itself , which is the full game, set after the events of Maiden. How about a Fortnite Android beta scam from 2018?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Everyone who has ever had something stolen—a laptop bag, for example—has fantasized about being able to track it down and get their property back. Apple did recently release an Android app that can be used to help find unknown AirTags moving with you, but that requires you to take action proactively, and many probably will not do so.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Indeed, a recurring series of questions posed at the Incident Response Forum Masterclass event on Thursday revealed that the incident response industry and their clients are still trying to find their footing six months after the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released an Oct.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

12 bug notification , Accellion confirmed the company first learned of a code flaw in the product – Accellion FTA – last December, releasing a fix in under 72 hours and alerting its customers of the exploit on December 23. In a Monday announcement that updated its original Jan. 12 bug notification, and it was “not until the week of Jan.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

17 press release from the Security Service of Ukraine suggests that at least one ringleader may also have been rounded up. They also handed us their keys so we could create a decryptor enabling past victims to recover their data,” said Brett Callow, security analyst at Emsisoft, noting that about 1,000 businesses had been affected.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Unless you live under a bottle cap rusting on the bottom of Loon Lake, you know that if you’re concerned about privacy , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the gift that keeps on taking. Facebook has had more than its share of bad press in recent years, including Russian meddling in U.S.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

They’ll offer to unlock encrypted data for ransom, and if the ransom isn’t met they’ll release data or information about the attack to competitors or unscrupulous stock traders who can short the victims’ stock before the breach becomes public. When will people wake up? In reality, probably never, at least on their own.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2021

And it's always interesting to see what organizations, cybersecurity professionals and governments are saying about these developing situations. Government problem: "As we talked about during a press event a number of weeks ago, we cannot defend a network if we can’t see a network. Analysis of SolarWinds and what U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

And the fact that hackers are thinking about this now is a very good thing. Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. But there was actually another GAO study that came out about two months ago.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches. The Wall Street Journal. Toronto Star.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The bait included the most awaited and talked-about releases: the new season of Stranger Things, the new Batman movie, and the Oscar nominees. Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2023

Cybersecurity professionals have various views on last week's news from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when it surprised the InfoSec community and the C-suites of corporate America. What about providing D&O (directors and officers liability) insurance to CISOs? After all, a CISO can't do it all.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 5, 2021

About Frontdoor. This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including, in particular, projected future performance and any statements about Frontdoor’s plans, strategies and prospects.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of eight major categories. Source: DBIR [1]. “So So what do these categories mean?”

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

The SAT the team used is called The Cone of Plausibility; it first prompts analysts to identify drivers to the situation, then to articulate an assumption about how each driver will develop over a specified time period (in this case, four to six months). To accomplish this, Russia could pursue any of several different paths.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

The gradual roll-out of Two-factor Authentication (2FA) across both gaming platforms and titles themselves is a wonderful thing, but one worries about buy-in. If the victims of the stolen accounts have invested lots of money into a title, there’s the possibility of bad press should it get that far. Black Desert Online.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our updated research looks at how data breaches happened, what academia published, what the news covered, and what people Googled. In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. Looking for the latest version? Click the button! SEE IT AND DOWNLOAD NOW!

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Plus, of course, there's the ginormous financial impact; TalkTalk claims their 2015 hack cost them £42M and I've heard first-hand from those inside other companies that have suffered data breaches about just how costly they've been ("many millions of dollars" is very common). The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one. billion locals' data. They claim that they're hack-proof.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

The United States was by far the most attacked country this spring, with 290 reported ransomware events. The award for most data stolen in April goes to the Stormous criminal gang, who bragged about an assault resulting in 161 GBs exfiltrated from Coca-Cola without the company knowing. Top countries.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 25, 2022

A portion of the message reads in English as follows: Currently aware of 5000-11000 casualties among the Russian military and about 1500-3000 - among Ukranians, and also about 350 civilians killed, including 38 children. It has also, yet again , raised concerns about the safety and integrity of the software supply chain.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The film is currently in production, with an anticipated release date of March 2023. Meanwhile, for those interested in privacy and data protection, there’s an excellent post about getting a career in that field. The board’s 52-page report goes back over the event in detail. Overcoming obstacles to passwordless authentication.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Vamosi: Identity -- I’m talking specifically about authentication and to some degree its follow-on authorization -- is one of the most important, yet least talked about aspects of security. everything online.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

What can we learn when we look at the news from the website security landscape of 2014? Below are five events we think helped change the face of website security. Snapchat didn’t respond, and on December 31st 2013, Gibson Security released the source code for the API exploit publicly (a common Google practice). Heartbleed.

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SecureList

AUGUST 3, 2022

News overview. Another anonymous attack that could be categorized as driven by political motives is the April 22 DDoS attack on Ukraine’s postal service , which followed the release of postage stamps featuring the image of the Russian cruiser Moskva. The SPIEF press pass issuance system and press room experienced issues too.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2020

But a review of other details about these domains suggests a majority of them are tied to various gun rights groups, state Republican Party organizations, and conservative think tanks, religious and advocacy groups. However, most of the content is generated by automated computer algorithms that consume data from reports released by U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

After the meeting, Putin and Trump made a joint news conference and of course, the US President Trump confirmed its trust in the words of the ally Putin. The Director of National Intelligence believes that Russia is the most aggressive threat actor and recent events demonstrate it. Spent a great deal of time talking about it.

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