Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now includes credentials for 441K accounts that were stolen by RedLine malware. The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now allows victims of the RedLine malware to check if their credentials have been stolen. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. CISA and MS-ISAC assessed that the threat actor connected to the VM through the victim’s VPN with the intent to blend in with legitimate traffic to evade detection.”

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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. Whatever your security strategy is, be sure you verify that your data and accounts are safe from hackers.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

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. Set-up 2-factor authentication. Use antivirus software.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure. Threat actors leverage VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure, to breach into the target networks. vBulletin, 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. It also ensures that your account credentials won’t be used for as long.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? How and Why We Discovered the Breach. This includes detailed VPN reviews and tutorials. What’s Going On?

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

The team discovered that the DepositFiles config file contained highly sensitive information such as credentials for multiple databases, email credentials, and payment system credentials, as well as credentials for social media accounts. What DepositFiles data was exposed? researchers said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

For example, secure your home with alarms, and your internet connection with a top-rated VPN. Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent. Why This Data Breach is Different. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

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. Weak Passwords The frequency of repeating a password for multiple accounts is greater than keeping multiple passwords.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

Source: BBC News) Canada Post hit by data breach after supplier ransomware attack. Source: BleepingComputer) Chinese cyber espionage hackers continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices. Other cybersecurity news: Eight arrests in Royal Mail text scam investigation.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2018

How can organizations reduce, prevent, and even avoid data breaches in the cloud? Let’s look at a few strategies and technologies that can be successfully used to secure data in the cloud and help reduce and even prevent data breaches in the cloud. Often, however, it is not in a good context.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” For more on this dynamic, please see The Value of a Hacked Email Account.

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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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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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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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

HackerOne announces first bug hunter to earn more than $2M in bug bounties SolarWinds releases updated advisory for SUPERNOVA backdoor Vermont Hospital confirmed the ransomware attack E-commerce app 21 Buttons exposes millions of users data Finland confirms that hackers breached MPs emails accounts Multi-platform card skimmer targets Shopify, BigCommerce, (..)

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Once an email address is discovered on the dark web, Google will urge users to enable two-step authentication (2FA) to protect their Google accounts. we’re expanding access to our dark web report in the next few weeks, so anyone with a Gmail account in the U.S. “Previously only available to Google One subscribers in the U.S.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This ability to log in to the administrative account could have been prevented with multifactor authentication in place. The Japanese video game company Nintendo suffered a data breach in 2020 in which hackers used credential stuffing techniques to access user accounts belonging to at least 160,000 Nintendo registered users.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2021

Does using a VPN slow down your Internet ? Source: Sucuri Blog) Mint Mobile suffered a data breach. Source: BleepingComputer) Guess , the fashion retailer, suffered a breach, too. Source: Gizmodo) Twitter verifying bot accounts raised a lot of questions regarding their process. Source: Security Week). Stay safe!

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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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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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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. Do you want to know which are the risks for impacted individuals?

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Then, your account will ask for a secondary code, usually sent via SMS to your phone. Here’s a shocking stat: according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , 81% of hacking-related breaches leverage either stolen or weak passwords. Go to your account settings and look for the security section.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With the ever-increasing threat of data breaches and identity theft, it’s crucial to take proactive steps to protect your personal information and financial well-being. One of the vital ways credit monitoring protects you is by identifying early signs of malicious activity, such as new account openings.

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