SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2023

This includes data from browsers, such as saved credentials, browsing history, and cookies, as well as information from instant messengers and emails. Info stealers are also indiscriminate, infecting as many computers as possible to maximize the amount of data collected.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

Access is set up using a certificate or a login/password pair, and in rare cases multi-factor authentication is added. Most of these utilities allow automatic access by login/password, but they are vulnerable to brute-force attacks. In other cases, they used data that was stolen before the incident began.

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Cytelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It heightens our awareness of extensive data collection about us, revealing potential uses and instigating concerns about potential misuse. Privacy policies from these tech giants, while intricate, are crucial in understanding the data collected and its uses. The impact of Big Tech on privacy is multifaceted.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 10, 2024

Controller Responsibilities: Determine Purpose: Decide why personal data is needed and how it will be used. Data Collection: Collect personal data from individuals. Compliance: Ensure that the data processing complies with privacy laws and regulations.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Passkeys are not just easier to use, but also significantly faster than passwords. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a recent study of 1,237 Chrome extensions with a minimum of 1,000 downloads, Incogni researchers found that nearly half ask for permissions that could potentially expose personally identifiable information (PII), distribute adware and malware , or even log everything users do online, including accessing passwords and financial data.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, according to Michael Samios of the National Observatory of Athens and his fellow colleagues who put together a new study published in Seismological Research Letters.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

Apply segmentation of duties where appropriate Each user should only be able to oversee some security procedures, including authentication, user permission assignment, and account offboarding. SAML streamlines web-based SSO for compliance and security by using digital signatures rather than passwords.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A slick tool with its own fully functional dashboard, its sights are set on targets not entirely dissimilar to other data stealers. System data collection, drive enumeration, and loading processes and DLLs into memory are all tell-tale signs that bad things are afoot on the target computer.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Put into context, it would make little sense to use a privacy-oriented browser and all the features such a browser may have to offer, but continue to reuse passwords across online accounts. I strongly recommend viewing the getting started guide (the sister guide to this one) on security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 29, 2021

Security report submitted by CR Digital Lab says that they have carried out their research based on few metrics such as automatic software updates, email notification when the user logs into the device from a unique IP address, 2-factor authentication and others. But the report doesn’t say to never buy such goods.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The swift expansion of the data collection sector has birthed an extensive market brimming with contenders all vying to deliver high quality proxy services. These cyber criminals may record your data, including sensitive details like usernames, passwords, and browsing history, which can be manipulated for various reasons.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

The incident shows that not all hackers’ motives are financial or data collection. But when the owners fired that person, it obviously never crossed their mind to change the passwords. They should have final say on who gets access, and be responsible for passwords and security.

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

Data for connecting the remote client to the server and its authentication details are added to the configuration file: AccountName Hostname ha.bbmouseme[.]com Data collection tools Cuthead for data collection Recently, ToddyCat started using a new tool we named cuthead to search for documents.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

Don’t reuse passwords. Password reuse is a common problem, especially in consumer cloud services. When using a cloud service for the first time, it’s easy to think that if the data you are using in that particular service isn’t confidential, then it doesn’t matter if you use your favorite password. One password….

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. Data includes verified online banking credentials, in some cases phishers also provides info on the account balances. One-time password (OTP) bots. ” continues the analysis. ” Phishing-as-a-Service.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. Some of the flaws, rated as ‘critical,’ could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to take full control of the vulnerable systems.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Thanks to some phenomenal work by Simon Décosse , BloodHound now includes attack paths where a principal can read the clear-text password for a computer by having both the DS-GetChanges and DS-GetChangesInFilteredSet privileges. Filtering your data collection by tenant, management group, or subscription. SyncLAPSPassword.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

This is why it is essential to your device performance to make sure any endpoints include flexible, secure, default-settings and, in particular, optional mechanisms like password complexity, password expiration, and account lock-out, which forces users to modify the default credentials when setting up the device.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 28, 2023

SMBs should invest in comprehensive training programs to educate employees about data security best practices, such as strong password management, recognising phishing attempts, and secure file handling. Limiting user privileges to essential functions and regularly reviewing access rights can enhance security.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Strengthen your defenses by creating unique and complex passwords for each account. Consider employing a password manager to organize and track them securely. Whenever possible, it is best to add an extra layer of protection by enabling two-factor authentication.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Protect your data Data privacy and cybersecurity go hand in hand. Keep your data secure by creating long, unique passwords and storing them in a password manager. Add another layer of security by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible, especially on accounts with sensitive information.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. An OTP (one-time password) bot is another service available by subscription. The page typically contains nothing besides that form.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When downloading the games from untrustworthy sources, players may receive malicious software that can gather sensitive data like login information or passwords from the victim’s device; and in an attempt to download a desired game for free, find a cool mod or cheat, gamers can actually lose their accounts or even money.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Cybercriminals are driven by financial motives to amass data collection. Data infiltration can occur at any part of a company’s life cycle, making continuous testing in DevOps crucial for security success. The constant threat of data infiltration looms over employees’ heads daily. Using weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

EvilProxy actors are using Reverse Proxy and Cookie Injection methods to bypass 2FA authentication – proxyfying victim’s session. This way they can harvest valid session cookies and bypass the need to authenticate with usernames, passwords and/or 2FA tokens.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

Zero trust implies that every access and connection made to a point of the network is reevaluated and re-authenticated to ensure the user and connection are authorized, with no more access than the user’s role requires. EDR gains visibility on what’s happening on an organization’s endpoints by capturing activity data.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

Mirza and his colleagues was actively uploading all of the device’s usernames, passwords and authentication cookies to cybercriminals based in Russia. This page indicates that access to the consumer and payment data collected by US Job Services is currently granted to several other coders who work with Mr.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Doing this helps me make an equal number of calls each day – gotta have even data collection! I’m gonna use a multifactor authentication error pretext. My pretext was that I was away from my computer and forgot to change my password before I went on vacation. While I do this I am thinking about our current pretexts.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

For example, some countries may use a singular set of data protection regulations, whereas the United States decided to divide the data protection law into multiple categories. Let’s take a closer look at the specific data privacy laws that have been implemented in the U.S.:

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. The initial infection stage of MagicScroll is missing.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In particular, the system.img file serves as the authentic payload archive used for initial Windows system infections. During these scans, it collects a range of sensitive information from all active users. The download counter for this file accurately reflects the number of new infections since its last update.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Authentication: Ensures that users or entities are verified and granted appropriate access based on their identity. It involves verifying credentials such as usernames and passwords, before granting access to applications. The tougher to steal, the better.

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