Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. 9, 2024, U.S.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reveals cyberattacks and data breaches targeted at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to climb, reaching their highest levels in the three years of the study. One in three dealt with higher employee turnover after an incident.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The scammer takes advantage of a two-factor authentication and verification weakness and uses your phone number to access your accounts. SIM is a small and removable chip card used in your mobile phone. Your data could be stolen in a data breach and sold on the dark web. Authentication apps.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Can Your Identity Be Stolen from Your Phone Number? When it comes to helping prevent identity theft , there’s a lot of personal information you should safeguard, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. How to Protect Your Phone Number and Identity . What is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)? IdentityIQ.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. Delays in identifying, assessing, and notifying breaches make it more challenging to prevent harm. From the OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Report 2.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 16, 2021

Shoulder surfing is a type of identity theft practice where someone tries to steal confidential information by spying over their target’s shoulder. Here are the most common scenarios when shoulder surfing may occur: You enter your username and password when logging onto a banking app or website on your laptop or mobile device.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, offering financial information exposes players to scams, potentially resulting in identity theft. In this article, we look at some of the most common Fortnite scams, how to help avoid them, and who to turn to for family identity theft protection. What is a Fortnite Scam?

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics to get unauthorized access to sensitive data, and having your credentials compromised poses a significant threat. In fact, last year 55% of identity crime cases reported to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) were due to compromised credentials.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics to get unauthorized access to sensitive data, and having your credentials compromised poses a significant threat. In fact, last year 55% of identity crime cases reported to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) were due to compromised credentials.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 30, 2024

For example, last year over 69 million players of Neopets, an online virtual pet game, had their customer data exposed — including usernames, emails, passwords, and personally identifiable information (PII) such as birth date, gender, zip code, and country of residence. Turn on 2FA for online games that offer it.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Resecurity’s discovery follows the publication of a report by credit-rating agency Moody’s last month questioning the reliability of the Aadhaar system’s biometric authentication controls. This data set contained an even more extensive array of PII data than pwn0001 ‘s. With roughly 1.4

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Online shopping, mobile banking, even accessing your e-mails — all these can expose you to cyber threats. By learning how to use online platforms safely from the tips below, you will be able to minimize the risks of identity theft and money fraud. Use Strong Passwords & Two-Factor Authentication.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

This was Experian’s advice even for people who’d just explained that this method was what identity thieves had used to lock them in out in the first place. In April 2021, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how identity thieves were exploiting lax authentication on Experian’s PIN retrieval page to unfreeze consumer credit files.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

The risks to the privacy of Australian customers are at an all-time high, as the nation has reported the highest percentage of mobile threats globally, standing at 26.9%. The average Australian netizen uses web-based mobile apps to browse, entertain, communicate, and shop online. Australian Mobile Cybersecurity in 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2023

Access security and authentication play an important role. However, organizations face many challenges preventing them from mitigating expanding threats against identity theft. How do we support expanding user authentication journeys while balancing strong security with a smooth user experience?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Late last summer, T-Mobile, a major cellphone service carrier, once again made negative headlines on the cybersecurity front. Such breaches, unfortunately, have become common. But they are downright rampant at T-Mobile. Affected parties should also be notified to help protect them from identity theft or other fallout.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

Mobility, BYOD (bring your own device), cloud, increased collaboration, and the consumerization of IT have necessitated a new type of access control security– zero trust security. Insider cyber-attacks are among the fastest growing threats in the modern security network, an increasingly common cause of data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As that definition spans the cloud and data centers, and on-premises, mobile and web users, application security needs to encompass a range of best practices and tools. Implement secure server configurations to maintain security and privacy of websites and protect private and sensitive data. How Does Application Security Work?

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Enable two-factor authentication.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 30, 2023

How Virtual Card Numbers Make Online Shopping Safer IdentityIQ The risk of identity theft is on the rise, and it’s becoming a serious concern. In fact, over the past decade, the number of people who have fallen victim to fraud and identity theft has nearly tripled.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

A freeze makes it much harder for identity thieves to open new lines of credit in your name. In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. Consumers in every U.S. But Equifax has changed a few things since then.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Personal data belonging to millions of customers of large businesses have been exposed due to a flaw in Onfido IDV. Millions of customers of large businesses have been left vulnerable to identity theft, thanks to a security flaw that exposes their personal data to illicit download. Millions affected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 20, 2023

Digital identities and credentials are most frequently stored on mobile devices. Every participant in the digital identity ecosystem, whether a human, company, or machine, has a digital wallet to collect their proof of identity or other verifiable information. The verifier can be another organization (i.e.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Identity Theft and Fraud. The personal identifiable information (PII) exposed by the leak could be used in fraudulent authentication across other platforms. The data could be the basis for establishing trust in order to encourage clicks, malware downloads and the availing of more confidential information.

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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. This kind of data breach could lead to two main scenarios. The first one is selling it on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed to improve security without hindering user convenience.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. Regulations.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

“We identified a handful of legitimate businesses who are customers that may have experienced a breach,” Dubner said. Dubner said all customers are required to use multi-factor authentication, and that everyone applying for access to its services undergoes a rigorous vetting process. info and findget[.]me,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2024

prefer banking through mobile apps or websites, while only 29% favor in-person banking. Robust security measures, led by Identity & Access Management (IAM) and key cloud technologies, are essential to protect against threats like identity theft, fraud, and data breaches.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

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. The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. What is password integrity? Think of the foundation of a building.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

End-user training and awareness can also help mobilization and wider app integration. Nation-state attackers have exploited high-severity vulnerabilities in legacy VPN platforms to breach networks. Specific rules of engagement for IoT Identity: Identify a naming system for IoT devices. Establish an IoT identity lifecycle.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Applying a zero trust philosophy to K-12 supports remote learning and working, protects data and systems, and allows for faster incident response. A zero trust architecture starts with having a multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution to ensure the person logging into a school system is a known, authorized user.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The password manager software in this list each have their own advantages, but all of them include the following key features: Strong encryption to protect data on a device, on the vendor’s servers, and for data-in-motion. Multi-factor authentication. True two-factor authentication. Password auto-filling.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The password management tools in this list each have their own advantages, but all of them include the following key features: Strong encryption to protect data on a device, on the vendor’s servers, and for data-in-motion. Multi-factor authentication. True two-factor authentication. Password auto-filling.

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