Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Think of all the accounts you have with different providers. Your password for each of your accounts needs to be difficult to guess and unpredictable. That’s why maintaining password integrity helps protect our online lives and reduces the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or data loss.

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Passwords Identity Theft Password Management Antivirus 131

Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2024

Companies Prioritise Downplaying Severity and Covering Their Arses During one disclosure, I had the good fortune of a very close friend of mine working for the company involved in an infosec capacity. And if there has been identity theft, was it from the breach you're now seeking compensation for?

Data breaches 343

Data breaches Identity Theft InfoSec Accountability 343

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. accounts (59% of common email addresses had exactly the same password). And so Have I Been Pwned was born.

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Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 280

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Other examples included things like scanning customer emails to assess exposure at points where, for example, account takeover was a risk. Infosec firms use Enterprise to support customers via domain level API searches. Identity theft companies use it to advise customers when they're exposed in a breach.

Identity Theft 346

Identity Theft InfoSec Marketing Authentication 346

SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2024

Additionally, there sectoral privacy regulations in the United States, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and state level regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Also, the GDPR recommends data anonymization to minimize the risk of PII breach and identity theft.

IoT 109

IoT InfoSec Artificial Intelligence Risk 109

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cybersecurity News) How to mitigate buffer overflow vulnerabilities (Infosec Institute) How to prevent buffer overflow attacks (TechTarget) VIDEOS What is a Buffer Overflow Attack? Thats a key takeaway from Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat, a report releaesd this week by Googles Threat Intelligence Group.

Banking 64

Banking Cybercrime Cybersecurity Ransomware 64

Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

These evils include hacking, identity theft, online surveillance, and cyberstalking. We all know the dangers associated with hacking, identity theft, and internet surveillance, thanks to Facebook and other social networking platforms. Most cyber stalkers are skilled hackers as well.

Identity Theft 110

Identity Theft Internet Internet Surveillance 110