Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. The hacker used that access to send tweets from a variety of popular and trusted accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, as part of a mundane scam -- stealing bitcoin -- but it's easy to envision more nefarious scenarios.

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Hacking Banking Accountability Government 312

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about, this one eventually triggering an email to me just last week: Let's imagine you're the first person on the list; you get a notification from HIBP, you check out the paste and see your Hotmail account listed there alongside your Spotify password and the plan you're subscribed to.

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Hacking Passwords Accountability Data breaches 223

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With so much critical data now stored in the cloud, how can people protect their accounts? But simpler passwords are much easier to hack. After breaking a password, cybercriminals don’t only access that single account. Silo your risk by generating a unique password for each of your online accounts.

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Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

The type of data disclosed could involve anything personal, such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers , and financial data. Breaches can occur due to various reasons, including cyberattacks, hacking, employee negligence, physical loss of devices, and social engineering to name a few.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image: As you can see at the top left of the image, the root folder is called "Collection #1" hence the name I've given this breach. The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data.

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