eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A VPN (Virtual Private Network) routes your internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel, shielding your data from hackers and ensuring your online activities remain private and secure. A VPN can provide the solution if you want to safeguard your personal information, bypass geo-restrictions, or maintain anonymity online.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

It is astounding that billions of online accounts have been breached over the past 18 years and that US consumer accounts are by far the most compromised. Related: VPNs vs ZTNA. It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An attacker managed to compromise network administrator credentials through the account of a former employee of the organization. CISA suspects that the account details fell in the hands of the attacker through a data breach. CISA suspects that the account details fell in the hands of the attacker through a data breach.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Change passwords regularly. Inventory your sensitive data.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2022

A data breach is any person’s nightmare. It can affect you mentally and financially, and an 100% unhackable device or account necessitates taking precautionary measures. . Secure your accounts with complex passwords. Are your passwords so strong you struggle to remember them?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

•Use strong passwords. It is essential to ensure that all accounts are protected with strong passwords. To this day, a significant amount of people still use the password across multiple accounts, which makes it much simpler for a cybercriminal to compromise a password and take over accounts.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The more devices, digital apps and online accounts you use, the more efficient and convenient your life becomes. Your devices are constantly collecting your personal data to fine-tune your user experience. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 3,205 data compromises in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

From March 18, 2024, to April 16, 2024, Duo Security and Cisco Talos observed large-scale brute-force attacks against a variety of targets, including VPN services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services. This method poses a risk of exposing sensitive data or enabling fraudulent activities.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 5, 2021

Data breaches all over the place this week! References Home Assistant is checking secrets in the config file against Pwned Passwords (HA is one of my favourite things, so happy to see this!) Join 200m others who enjoy privacy - try MEGA for free.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection.

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Webroot

MAY 31, 2024

2 64% of Americans have experienced a data breach. 3 95% of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error. Ensure your online privacy with a VPN Without proper protection, your sensitive information—like passwords and credit card details—can be easily intercepted by cybercriminals while browsing.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 27, 2021

A similar type of attack just played out against an Enterprise Password Management tool called Passwordstate. Supply chain cyberattack against password manager Passwordstate. Affected customers' password records may have been harvested.". Passwordstate data breach remediation: 8 steps to take.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In our digitally connected world, apps and online accounts can make our lives much more convenient. Sadly, they can also make our personal data more vulnerable to cyber threats. In one recent data breach, 2.9 Create strong passwords. Here are some tips for creating unbreakable passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

Also, employees install more and more cybersecurity solutions, from password managers and ad blockers to Virtual Private Networks. million is the cost of a data breach representing an increase of 2.6% A significant reason behind these breaches is just one click away, usually provoked by continuous efforts to avoid the attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

DepositFiles’ clients are at risk of their personally identifiable information, files, and passwords being stolen. In the wrong hands, the exposed data can greatly jeopardize DepositFiles’ user privacy and the company itself. What DepositFiles data was exposed? researchers said. researchers said.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 22, 2021

Don’t cut your vacation short by neglecting to secure your devices and personal data, and save yourself the headache of losing access to your accounts or finances. Update passwords for all online accounts to protect against any potential credential stuffing attacks. Before departure. While at your destination.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Defining Data Privacy Data privacy refers to the practices and policies in place to help ensure sensitive personal information, such as Social Security Numbers (SSNs), credit card details, bank account information, and medical records, is handled responsibly.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2021

The consequences of a data breach can vary greatly depending on the intention of the adversary. The 2020 Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity report found that 74% of IT security professionals are more concerned about a cyberattack on critical infrastructure than an enterprise data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Organizations with weak cybersecurity have been severely punished with cyber-attacks, data breaches, and huge losses in the past. According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Security through a VPN. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While the personal data of 4,557 students, or 2,800 Girl Scouts , or 3,000 Minnesotans might pale in comparison to the steady flow of mega breaches from the likes of Equifax or Collection #1-5, but any of them have the ability to effectively sink a business financially.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your data is stored across countless databases for various purposes, making it a prime target for criminals. With access to your personal information, bad actors can drain your bank account and damage your credit—or worse. But it’s just as important you don’t use the same password for multiple accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. This ability to log in to the administrative account could have been prevented with multifactor authentication in place.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cisco is aware of reports that Akira ransomware threat actors have been targeting Cisco VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication to infiltrate organizations, and we have observed instances where threat actors appear to be targeting organizations that do not configure multi-factor authentication for their VPN users.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile , MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Use Strong Passwords & Two-Factor Authentication. With the multitude of online shops now asking you to create an account for placing an order or creating a wishlist, it might seem very convenient to reuse passwords. Good Practices for Passwords. Standard passwords from manuals are prime targets for cyberattackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A few simple changes to your devices and accounts can help discourage cyber criminals from trying to access your data. Prevent Data Breaches. Giants like Facebook and Target have suffered breaches and password leaks, so it’s safe to say data from at least one of your online accounts could have been leaked.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Digital attributes are data points about you that are often used for administrative reasons and include: Date of birth. The following vectors represent some of the most common ways a criminal could gain access to your accounts and is also known as an account takeover : Social Engineering. Data Breaches. Biometrics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Learn about strong password creation, multi-factor authentica-tion, secure browsing habits, and data encryption. Avoid sharing sensitive information on public Wi-Fi networks and use a virtual private network (VPN) when connecting to public networks. Utilize a password manager to securely store and generate strong passwords.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Security is crucial, but let’s face it, a password like “Fluffy123” won’t fool anyone for long. The first is something you know (your password), and the second is something you have (like your phone). With 2FA enabled, you’ll first enter your password. Now, imagine a hacker has your password.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

This means companies have to be proactive and instill the right habits, which often means resisting the bad habits that lead to millions of successful cyberattacks every year – from the use of generic and easy-to-crack account credentials to the willingness to click on suspicious links and attachments in emails from untrusted sources.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. The costs that follow a data breach are trending upward year over year. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. Wazawaka, a.k.a. Matveev, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4 Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The exposed DTC app user data include email address, phone number, phone model, and the apps’ tokens for email, login, session, and signup. Tokens usually serve as digital keys to user accounts. In theory, exposing tokens could lead to unauthorized account access.

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