SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

The website was advertised through the official BAYC Discord for a Yuga Labs community manager that was previously hackerd. “CertiK analysis reveals that this community manager, account –@BorisVagner (“BorisVagner | SBS” on Discord)– posted a message to BAYC’s Discord server with a phishing link that led to the fake site. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

RPKI adds a layer of security to BGP by cryptographically binding IP address prefixes to the entities that hold the legitimate right to advertise them. I have fixed your RIPE admin account security. If you suspect that your account might be impacted, please report it to security@ripe.net.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

A new flaw was discovered in a WordPress plugin, this time experts found a zero-day vulnerability in the ThemeREX Addons to create admin accounts. Security experts from WordFence have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the ThemeREX Addons that was actively exploited by hackers in the wild to create user accounts with admin permissions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

. “While almost all of the email addresses listed do not belong to Poloniex accounts, we are forcing a password reset on any email addresses that do have an account with us, including yours,” states the email. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. This is a real email!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Security researchers at Check Point have discovered several flaws in the popular game Fortnite that could be exploited to takeover gamers’account. Security experts at Check Point discovered several issues in the popular online battle game Fortnite. Facebook or Google) in turn, resends the authentication token.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2018

It’s not clear how hackers have hacked the Instagram accounts, there are some cases in which owner s of the accounts explained that they were using two-factor authentication (2FA). Woznicki says Instagram sent him security emails notifying him the email address on his account had been changed (once again, to a.ru

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