Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2022

The streaming media platform Plex is urging its users to reset passwords after threat actors gained access to its database. Plex is an American streaming media service and a client–server media player platform. Long story short, we kindly request that you reset your Plex account password immediately. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The messages pose as sent by a representative of a media outlet or think tank and ask North Korea experts to participate in a media interview or request for information (RFI). The attack chain associated with ARCHIPELAGO starts with phishing emails that embed malicious links.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Jared DeMott of VDA Labs talks about his work securing voter registration tablets and also about the prospects for downloadable, safe voting applications on your preferred mobile device in the future. Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Jared DeMott of VDA Labs talks about his work securing voter registration tablets and also about the prospects for downloadable, safe voting applications on your preferred mobile device in the future. Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

. “As we learn from the experience of past security incidents and implement changes, we’re also focused on keeping high-profile accounts on Twitter safe and secure during the 2020 US election.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Presidential Election). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 6, 2022

A variant of a popular piece of social media fraud has made its way onto Discord servers. Tips to keep your Discord account secure. Should you land on a regular phishing page and hand over login details, the attacker will still need your 2FA code to do anything with your account. is this a new discord scam or something?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Jared DeMott of VDA Labs talks about his work securing voter registration tablets and also about the prospects for downloadable, safe voting applications on your preferred mobile device in the future. Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I just don't want me to be able to get in, especially not with such an important account.". Why is hacking the President's Twitter account such a big deal? As we've seen for quite some time now, social media account takeover attacks are common, including attacks that take over celebrity, athlete , and CEO accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data breach).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2018

The number of Instagram accounts that was hacked has increased since the beginning of August, all the victims were logged out of their accounts, their personal and contact information were deleted, personal email address was changed. The media outlet Mashable first reported the spike in the account takeover.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2020

This specialized team hunts down major cybersecurity threats, including tracking nation-state hacking groups. And according to Shane Huntley , Head of TAG, the team recently uncovered some vital security intel regarding the 2020 U.S. When SecureWorld covered Russia's hack of the DNC, we noted that Russia used similar tactics in 2016.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Users enjoyed using them to compose poems and lyrics in the style of famous artists (which left Nick Cave, for example, decidedly unimpressed ), researchers debated blowing up data centers to prevent super AI from unleashing Armageddon, while security specialists persuaded a stubborn chatbot to give them phone-tapping and car-jacking instructions.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 12, 2022

On December 27, 2021 multiple cybersecurity media outlets began reporting on LastPass users who believed their master passwords had been stolen. This will prevent a cascading failure of your account security if one of those accounts is compromised in the future, since, hopefully, you haven’t reused the same password for other accounts.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Even the title of SecureWorld's first story about the incident had questions: "Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?". And even more recently, the Twitter account of a dead hacker was used to theorize how the attack took place. How was Twitter hacked?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

Experts discovered an Android Trojan, dubbed Cookiethief , that is able to gain root access on infected devices and hijack Facebook accounts. “We recently discovered a new strain of Android malware.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2021

Although sharing your day’s highlights in snapshots and videos on Instagram can be entertaining, some people claim to feel happier after deleting their accounts. Consuming media tailor-made to make other people’s lifestyles appear alluring can be addictive for some and induce anxiety in others. Thankfully, there is a compromise.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The defendant targeted accounts belonging to both random students and students he’d known personally. He requested that other people break into the accounts and accessed a number himself without permission. With those, he broke into social media profiles / web storage and stole nude images and movies, and traded them with others.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 7, 2021

Enterprises must implement standards for how AI applications are trained, secured and managed to avoid system hacks. The post Four ways to stay ahead of the AI fraud curve appeared first on SC Media. Deploy strong authentication to stop large-scale spearphishing attacks. Robert Prigge, chief executive officer, Jumio.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2021

Alternative social media platforms, also known as “alt” or alt-tech, were catapulted into the spotlight near the end of 2020 due to US President Donald Trump’s claims of election interference. It also shares data with vendors, linked social media sites, and of course in response to legal requests. Original Post at [link]. User options.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

For instance, in securing your high risk accounts like banking or personal finance accounts, healthcare accounts, government services accounts (DMV, IRS, etc.), Imagine your social media account is hacked, and they notified everyone that they lost the passwords to all their customers’ accounts.

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