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The Last Watchdog
JUNE 11, 2025
Related: Getting the most from cyber insurance At RSAC 2025, I met with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to trace a quiet but growing convergence: endpoint defense, cyber insurance, and monoculture risk are no longer separate concerns. Cyber insurers want it. And increasingly, that evidence is under scrutiny.
Krebs on Security
MAY 16, 2020
A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service.
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Krebs on Security
MAY 23, 2020
Secret Service warned of “massive fraud” against state unemployment insurance programs , noting that false filings from a well-organized Nigerian crime ring could end up costing the states and federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Meanwhile, a number of U.S. Last week, the U.S. ” Image: Agari.
Krebs on Security
JULY 23, 2020
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American [ NYSE:FAF ] is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in $6.2 billion in 2019.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 30, 2025
Non-human service accounts have quietly become one of the biggest liabilities in enterprise security. Yet despite their scale, service accounts remain largely invisible to traditional IAM and PAM systems. Yet despite their scale, service accounts remain largely invisible to traditional IAM and PAM systems.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
for stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. By way of example, he suggested maybe a company centered around recovering lost passwords for cryptocurrency accounts, or perhaps a series of online retail stores that sold cheap Chinese goods at a steep markup in the United States.
Krebs on Security
JULY 4, 2020
One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.
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