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PetSmart warns customers of credential stuffing attack

Malwarebytes

Pet retail company PetSmart has emailed customers to alert them to a recent credential stuffing attack. Credential stuffing relies on the re-use of passwords. Take this example: User of Site A uses the same email and password to login to Site B. This is why we are continuously telling people to not reuse their passwords.

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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. It’s not just attachments from retailers, but also from shipping companies or financial institutions. Keep a close eye on your accounts. …and don’t open that attachment. Be wary of “free” offers.

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Keys to Safe Online Shopping this Holiday Season

SecureWorld News

Making a cybersecurity list, checking it twice This year, give yourself the gift of peace of mind by following our Core 4 behaviors: Protect each account with a unique, complex password that is at least 12 characters long—and use a password manager! Use multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) for any account that allows it.

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Cyber Scams on the Rise

Approachable Cyber Threats

Your internet browsing, including entering your credit card information, may not be secure, and you don’t know who is in the middle or on the other end of that connection. Frantically, you click on the link in the email and enter your Amazon account email and password. What’s going on here?

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Shop Safely on Black Friday and Cyber Monday with These Tricks

Approachable Cyber Threats

As a former retail worker, I used to dread the holidays. Your internet browsing, including entering your credit card information, may not be secure, and you don’t know who else is watching. Frantically, you click on the link in the email and enter your Amazon account email and password. Category Awareness Risk Level.

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ROUNDTABLE: Targeting the supply-chain: SolarWinds, then Mimecast and now UScellular

The Last Watchdog

The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. The attackers thus gained remote access to the CRM systems running on the store computers – and a foothold to access customers’ wireless phone numbers and associated account information.

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SHARED INTEL: IT pros gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication to improve security, boost agility

The Last Watchdog

Password abuse emerged as a criminal specialty shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to jump start the commercial Internet using a security framework built on shared secrets. What a lot of people overlook is that MFA and password managers are still built on top of passwords,” Avetisov observes.