Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Their main purpose is to protect applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Software Risk Encryption Marketing 104

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

Read Julie’s blog “ Roadmap for the Data Gold Rush: Maintaining Qualitative Data in the IoT Environment ” to get the complete picture of this important topic and learn more about the public key infrastructure (PKI) required to make device credentialing and data encryption mechanisms possible.

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IoT Data collection Encryption eCommerce 72

SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

If applicants lie about their education history or misrepresent their name or address information, for example, Trua will flag the response as false and downgrade the person’s score accordingly – but without unnecessarily sharing the employee’s personal information, which remains encrypted and stored on a blockchain.

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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. Cybercriminals are driven by financial motives to amass data collection.

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Cybersecurity Passwords Scams Phishing 52

Spinone

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

authentication (the technology that allows you to log into an app via your Google or Facebook account) can introduce many security flaws as apps using this type of authentication are granted access permissions to user account actions and data on install. Poorly implemented OAuth 2.0 million users personal details.

Mobile 40

Mobile Data breaches Accountability Risk 40

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. In August, the company confirmed a data breach that affected 5.4

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) regulate resource access. Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Data loss prevention ( DLP ) prevents unwanted data transfers. Data Control and Privacy Large amounts of data may be stored and analyzed in the cloud.

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Organizations should first ensure that the business collects and handles data correctly and then ensure that its data policies clearly communicate the purpose and proper use of the organization’s data. Reputational Risk Data breaches and regulatory actions can significantly hurt an organization’s brand.

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Government Backups Data privacy Accountability 52

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. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 233

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Managed Detection and Response Product Guide Top MDR Services and Solutions Encryption Full disk encryption, sometimes called whole disk encryption, is a data encryption approach for both hardware and software that involves encrypting all disk data, including system files and programs.

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Network Security Penetration Testing Firewall Antivirus 119

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Odds are more than one was breached here,” said Davisson. “I The biggest error was underestimating the power of one single account to undo their business and grant access to everyone’s data. At the very least, there should have been some form of multi-factor authentication or password vault to protect the [server] account.

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