Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

Passwords 154

Passwords Banking Mobile Telecommunications 154

SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To find out, in 2022 we created a list of 700 companies worldwide from different industries: industrial, telecommunication, financial, retail, and others. According to the source of origin, we divide all compromised accounts into three categories: Public leakages that are freely distributed within cybercriminal society.

Data breaches 80

Data breaches Accountability Telecommunications Malware 80

Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2018

Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and account numbers. Eir, the fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company of Ireland, has suffered a data breach this week.

Data breaches 47

Data breaches Telecommunications Advertising Accountability 47

IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

A nationwide loss of power could create a ripple effect, causing disruption to internet telecommunications, water, sewage, fuel and gas supplies. This should include a secure password manager. In the worst scenario, such an attack would not only create social turmoil, but again, could lead to loss of life.

Risk 98

Risk Healthcare Passwords Government 98

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many different ways to safeguard your organization’s sensitive data from a breach, including encryption, data erasure, data masking, and data resiliency. Mismanagement of user accounts – using admin privileges to upgrade user access may result in a data breach for personal profit or copying files with customer information.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

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. The files were designed to be executed in a pre-defined order, and some of them were AES128-encrypted.

Malware 140

Malware Computers and Electronics Telecommunications Encryption 140

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

CISO 244

CISO Encryption Telecommunications Financial Services 244

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. Contacted on Feb.

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DNS Internet Internet Government 265

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER.

Cryptocurrency 228

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 228

Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

2 ] The threat actor leveraged a set of misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) accounts that enabled it to enroll a new device for MFA and to access the victim network. In a post made in a Telegram group - allegedly run by the actor - the adversary recruits employees working at telecommunication, technology, or software companies.

Ransomware 59

Ransomware Malware Government Antivirus 59

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys. The attacker can then define an admin account, setting the home directory to the root of C: drive. With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips.

Software 62

Software Malware Authentication Penetration Testing 62

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The G Suite Admin can then immediately log in to their Spinbackup account and be able to see the list of encrypted files, and either restore all of them with one click, if the “Auto-recovery” mode is on (Spinbackup automatically blocks Google Drive for PC application and recovers all encrypted files), or manually in case the mode is off.

Security Awareness 40

Security Awareness Risk Cyber threats Cyber Risk 40

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. Authentication and password management. Implement password hashing on a trusted system. Session management.

Authentication 79

Authentication Passwords Software Accountability 79

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

DNS 83

DNS Telecommunications Government Encryption 83

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

On the basis that they are a Cybersecurity company, the most plausible explanation is that a legitimate user account or an automated source code commit user (non-human user, system or application user) account was compromised. Potential user account compromise.

Cybersecurity 97

Cybersecurity Accountability Marketing Software 97

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

That scanning primarily targeted devices that were placed online with weak, factory default settings and/or passwords. telecommunications provider TalkTalk. In that incident, Schuchman allegedly told his dad to trash his computer, before successfully encrypting his hard drive (which the Marshals service is still trying to decrypt).

IoT 302

IoT DDOS Cybercrime Internet 302

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

Firewall 114

Firewall Encryption Computers and Electronics Software 114

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

The two-tier program includes business development opportunities, training, joint marketing, partner collateral, marketing co-op funds, sales leads and field account planning. These include CarrierEdge for telecommunications service providers, MicroEdge for the IoT industry and CloudEdge for enterprises. Ubiq Security.

Cybersecurity 95

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Threat Detection Marketing 95

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. Contest: Since at least 2014, an Iranian threat group tracked by FireEye as APT34 has conducted reconnaissance aligned with the strategic interests of Iran. DNS Server scripts. The icap.py

DNS 79

DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 79

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Beyond Identity Identity management 2020 Private Expel Managed security service 2016 Private Tigera Zero trust for K8s 2016 Private Intrinsic Application security 2016 Acquired: VMware HackerOne Penetration testing 2015 Private Virtru Data encryption 2014 Private Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure 2010 NYSE: NET.

Cybersecurity 127

Cybersecurity Technology Marketing Healthcare 127