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ShinyHunters Hits Ticketmaster with Breach Impacting 560 Million Users

SecureWorld News

Customers can protect themselves by changing passwords and monitoring their accounts, although this may be fruitless if the attackers still have access or if there is no breach in the first place." Since the risks customers will face will be in the future in the form of phishing, odds are the impact is minimal.

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Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems

Schneier on Security

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: " Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities " (summary here ). However, they make weapon systems more vulnerable to cyber attacks. The upshot won't be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they're vulnerable.

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Half of US Consumer’s Personal Data was stolen in 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

Concernedly, all such siphoned info is being used for launching phishing attacks or to siphon money from bank accounts. And sometimes, 23% of them experienced cyber-bullying and around 20% of them became a victim of a romance scam.

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NEW TECH: Devolutions’ ‘PAM’ solution helps SMBs deal with rising authentication risks

The Last Watchdog

Here are some of the key takeaways: PAM 101 PAM is crucial to all companies because it reduces opportunities for malicious users to penetrate networks and obtain privileged account access, while providing greater visibility of the environment. Current PAM solutions cater almost exclusively for large organizations. I hope there’s more to come.

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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

Collectively, enterprises spend a king’s ransom many times over on cyber defense. Yet all too many companies and individual employees till lack a full appreciation of the significant risks they, and their organizations, face online. And as a result, many still do not practice essential cyber hygiene.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

If there is a silver lining, it is likely the data exposed to advertisers such as Microsoft and Google does not include usernames, passwords, Social Security numbers (SSNs), financial account information, or credit card numbers. Protecting your information online starts with good cyber hygiene.

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Paving the Way to Passwordless

Duo's Security Blog

Do you remember all the passwords to your various accounts and profiles? How many times have you forgotten your login details, attempted to reset your password, and faced the painful reminder, ‘your new password cannot be the same as previous’?