The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Related: Credential stuffing fuels account takeovers. While changing passwords may be inconvenient at times, following this password best practice can help prevent the following data catastrophes: •Giving hackers easy access to your most sensitive accounts (avoid this problem by steering clear of insecure methods such as HTTP or public Wi-F.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%).

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Cytelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It heightens our awareness of extensive data collection about us, revealing potential uses and instigating concerns about potential misuse. Privacy policies from these tech giants, while intricate, are crucial in understanding the data collected and its uses. The impact of Big Tech on privacy is multifaceted.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Put into context, it would make little sense to use a privacy-oriented browser and all the features such a browser may have to offer, but continue to reuse passwords across online accounts. It’s also viable to implement this guide and the cybersecurity one at the same time for simultaneous improvement for your privacy and security!

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Encryption Artificial Intelligence IoT Data collection 177

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. Data includes verified online banking credentials, in some cases phishers also provides info on the account balances. ” continues the analysis. ” Phishing-as-a-Service. .

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The swift expansion of the data collection sector has birthed an extensive market brimming with contenders all vying to deliver high quality proxy services. Buy from Authentic Providers The internet is rife with various individuals purporting to offer legitimate proxy servers.

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Internet Internet Retail Data collection 68

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

EvilProxy actors are using Reverse Proxy and Cookie Injection methods to bypass 2FA authentication – proxyfying victim’s session. Early occurrences of EvilProxy have been initially identified in connection to attacks against Google and MSFT customers who have MFA enabled on their accounts – either with SMS or Application Token.

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Phishing Accountability Hacking Advertising 99

Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Be Mindful of Your Online Accounts Your online accounts are key access points to your digital identity. Begin by cleaning up old accounts. Close or delete outdated email addresses, social media accounts, and online services you no longer use. It’s essential to adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

This should be a focus area for organizations to improve their defensive tactics, such as ensuring secure credentials and removing unnecessary privileged accounts. Team82’s data shows that 63% of the vulnerabilities disclosed may be exploited remotely through a network attack vector, while 31% of the vulnerabilities can be exploited locally.

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Healthcare Ransomware Authentication Threat Reports 126

Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

These are generally not considered privacy data, but when coupled with an element like your identity document, it becomes private. Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. Why Is Data Privacy Important?

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Data privacy Identity Theft Accountability Banking 96

Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Passkeys are a new, passwordless authentication method that offer a convenient authentication experience for sites and apps, using just a fingerprint, face scan or other screen lock. Preliminary, qualitative data collected from user research also indicates that users already perceive this convenience as the key value of passkeys.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

A hacker or scammer could also use faceprint and voiceprint data in a plethora of ways to impersonate you, and to create very realistic deep fakes or digital personas - combined with the other information obtainable from TikTok and some rudimentary AI, create a not-so-easily discerned, fake digital version of any user.

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Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Data Privacy Week Champion , and as part of our commitment to the link between cybersecurity and privacy, we wanted to share some best practices from the National Cybersecurity Alliance about how to protect your privacy online. Protect your data Data privacy and cybersecurity go hand in hand. For Individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. Comprehensive protection: DataDome protects against all types of bots, including credential stuffing, web scraping, and account takeover attacks.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. Unlike the free data mentioned above, these have been checked, and even the account balances have been extracted. Legitimate services use one-time passwords as a second authentication factor.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 114

McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you reuse passwords, you only need one of your cloud services to be breached—once criminals have stolen your credentials through one service, they potentially have access to every account that shares those same credentials, including banking platforms, email and other services where sensitive data is stored.

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Passwords Mobile Identity Theft VPN 71

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

This is why it is essential to your device performance to make sure any endpoints include flexible, secure, default-settings and, in particular, optional mechanisms like password complexity, password expiration, and account lock-out, which forces users to modify the default credentials when setting up the device.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

I had assumed that they either stole or spoofed a SolarWinds digital certificate, which they then used to authenticate the tainted update. However, one possible scenario is that they obtained a targeted employee’s login credentials and then used that employee’s account to pivot to and take control of the build system, Pericin says.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dirk-jan found that the “Write Account Restrictions” property set in Active Directory includes the ability to write to the “ms-DS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity” property, which allows you to perform the RBCD attack. You can authenticate with a username/password combo, a service principal certificate or secret, a JWT, or refresh token.

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Data collection Authentication Passwords Architecture 52

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

Zero trust implies that every access and connection made to a point of the network is reevaluated and re-authenticated to ensure the user and connection are authorized, with no more access than the user’s role requires. EDR gains visibility on what’s happening on an organization’s endpoints by capturing activity data.

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Ransomware Digital transformation Malware Internet 132

Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

Mirza and his colleagues was actively uploading all of the device’s usernames, passwords and authentication cookies to cybercriminals based in Russia. The score is only one of many criteria taken into account for employment. “We’ve never told anyone we were the US Postal Service,” Plott continued.

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Marketing Advertising Scams Telecommunications 258

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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Spyware Mobile Advertising Software 180

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave. Game over: cybercriminals targeting gamers’ accounts and money. Launching the malware resulted in decryption and activation of a Trojan-stealer dubbed Taurus.

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Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 96

Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Thank you to Cristian M for his AzureHound PR and BloodHound PR to bring support for attack paths traversing Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, Web Apps, and Function Apps. Cristian’s PRs also add support for Storage Accounts, which we will be including in a future update. The SMSA work didn’t quite make it in time for the BloodHound 4.3

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Authentication: Ensures that users or entities are verified and granted appropriate access based on their identity. Auditing and accountability: Audit logs and accountability mechanisms help in compliance with regulations, detecting suspicious behavior and investigating security breaches.

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Software Risk Encryption Marketing 104

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

Security solutions integrated into operating systems, two-factor authentication and other verification measures have helped reduce the number of vulnerable users. BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device. of attacks.

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Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

As I often highlight in my blogs, data breaches have become all too common, and these continue to have a negative influence on corporate reputation and brand image, resulting in reduced market value and revenues. These are: Enabling strong mutual authentication between connected devices and applications.

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IoT Data collection Encryption eCommerce 72

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. Scammers abused legitimate survey services by creating polls in the name of various organization to profit from victims’ personal, including sensitive, data.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 91

Spinone

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

authentication (the technology that allows you to log into an app via your Google or Facebook account) can introduce many security flaws as apps using this type of authentication are granted access permissions to user account actions and data on install. Poorly implemented OAuth 2.0 million users personal details.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Accountability Cybercrime Hacking Retail 107

Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Most recently, the company used phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication for advertising and networking purposes. Facebook needs to be both explicit and detailed about how and when it shares user data. It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. There are reasons to believe that unknown Linux implants exist that can send data collected from Linux machines to Mafalda.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Telecommunications Encryption 141

SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This article delves deep into the settings and privacy policies of LLM-based chatbots to find out how they collect and store conversation histories, and how office workers who use them can protect or compromise company and customer data. The user creates an account and gains access to the bot. Account hacking.

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Accountability B2B Risk Hacking 98

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

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IoT Firmware Risk Manufacturing 358