Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Two-factor authentication (an additional level of security most commonly tied to your mobile device) is still not as widely adopted as it should be. Sign up for breach alerts. One of the first things you should consider doing is registering on a data breach service like Have I been Pwned. The problem with passwords.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In today’s digital age, the threat of data breaches is a constant concern. Therefore, it is crucial to understand what hackers are planning to do with your data and take proactive measures to protect it. Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks are one of the most common and successful methods used by hackers.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

Data Privacy Risks Data privacy risks involve the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of sensitive personal information. This category encompasses threats like data breaches and inadequate privacy controls. Examples include malware, phishing attacks, and insider threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But errors resulting in cybersecurity breaches can have disastrous consequences for all involved. Verizon’s 2022 Data Breaches Investigations Report concluded that 82% of data breaches involved a human element. Phishing scams. Email and spear phishing are the two most common types of scams.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Many of them auto-populate the login fields when you attempt to access an online account, so you know you are on the correct site and not an imitation site that’s phishing you. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication is a great step to add in on every service that offers it. Back up data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. That’s the reality today.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It really didn’t concern commercial organizations until the late 1990s, until the widespread use of the World Wide Web made it possible for organizations to suffer data breaches or denial of service attacks. Is it a phishing campaign? Even if you think you’re erasing your tracks. Januszkiewicz: Absolutely.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2023

Digital identity data is a cybercriminal's favorite target. The 2023 ForgeRock Identity Breach Report revealed a 233% increase in U.S. data breaches exposing user credentials compared to the year before. From there, they can find high-value data to steal, hold for ransom, expose, or sell.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. To use a service, we enter our user name and a password.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

From there, you have identity-based attacks, or attacks that target authentication systems, which is where credential stuffing comes in. This training can be pirated security training videos or books, or actual classes. The other driver is older data breaches that are sorted and dropped into scanners.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vamosi: Whenever there’s a data breach or an attack, I look at how long the bad actor was active on the compromised network. So that could happen for example, through phishing through fingers, main misconfigured things very well in the rubble. OFten network systems are misconfigured and that often leads to breaches.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s likely we’ll continue to witness a significant shift in the motivation behind prominent cyberattacks, as data sources indicate a resurgence in activities such as information theft, covert communication monitoring, and content manipulation from state sponsored attackers and cybercriminals.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I still remember reading hacker Kevin Mitnick's book "Ghost in the Wires" a few years ago. The Hackers then tried to direct the employee to a phishing website that looked identical to the legitimate Twitter VPN website and was hosted by a similarly named domain. How did the Twitter account takeover attack work?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

So maybe ChatGPT isn’t going to take over the world just yet—what about some of the more realistic security concerns being voiced, like the ability to develop malware or phishing kits? ChatGPT can only pull from what’s already in its public database, and it has only been trained on data up until 2021.

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