Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. Tales From the Breach: What Organizations Are (and Aren’t) Doing The 2013 Target data breach was a watershed moment within the cybersecurity landscape.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Your name and city are enough to run a comprehensive internet search. Google will bring up links to anything with your name, including: company websites, personal blogs or websites, social media profiles like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and local media you may be featured in. Why This Data Breach is Different.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Gierlinger.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Cybercriminals are constantly searching for ways to gain access to an organization.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). The anonymity value is that from my perspective running the service, all I know is that someone is searching for "21bd1".

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The thread on the hacking forum with the samples of alleged TikTok data has been deleted and the user banned for “lying about data breaches” [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 5, 2022 "Lying about data breaches" Ugh, criminals are so untrustworthy!

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Supply chain issues, inflation, a red-hot housing market, labor shortages and data breaches are just a few of the topics that affected our credit and personal finances. As the end of the year is approaching, we’re compiling our most searched and read topics of 2021. What to Do If You’re a Victim of a Hospital Data Breach.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. Just to scroll back for a bit of context, anyone who owns a domain can do a free domain search on HIBP. And then it took off. This post talks about how I'm addressing that.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

. “Snatch threat actors have been observed purchasing previously stolen data from other ransomware variants in an attempt to further exploit victims into paying a ransom to avoid having their data released on Snatch’s extortion blog,” the FBI/CISA alert reads. ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. Experts discovered 73 gigabytes of data during a regular security audit of publicly available servers. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. ” continues the blog post.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2023

This keeps with the spirit of HIBP's roots being a community service and ensures the data is accessible without barrier to the majority of people. There's no change for 60% of domains that have previously been searched, a negligible cost for the next 10% of them with the remainder paying commensurately more based on their scale.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Hackenproof, the Estonian cybersecurity company that found the data trove online, announced their discovery on their blog. The data was found on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that allows users to look up and access “power plants, Smart TVs, [and] refrigerators.” 32 million SkyBrasil customers. 1133 NFL players.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use. They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed. Does that make the password ok?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

That's 201k people that have searched for a domain, left their email address for future notifications when the domain appears in a new breach and successfully verified that they control the domain. But that's only a subset of all the domains searched, which totals 231k. Let's jump into it! Each and every time.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This week I've been dealing with data breaches - lots of data breaches. Disqus did an awesome job of their disclosure (have we ever seen a breach as large of this disclosed within 24 hours?). SHA-1 was really starting to show its age in 2012 (there's a link to save you searching for me with no clothes).

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Heimadal Security

MAY 26, 2021

Domino’s India is the most recent organization to have its data compromised following a data breach. The post 180 Million Clients’ Data Was Exposed Following a Cyberattack Targeting Domino’s India appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. billion breach records and another 133 million pastes accounts at the same time.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 28, 2021

Source: Security Week) After three months, Volkswagen and its Audi subsidiary have started notifying millions of its clients in the US and Canada about a data breach. Other cybersecurity news: Malicious Google ads on spoofed Signal and Telegram sites lead to RedlineStealer.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. They introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents leaked in the TOR network. Additional info is available in the post published by Resecurity on its blog: [link].

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2021

This post has been brewing for a while, but the catalyst finally came after someone (I'll refer to him as Jimmy) recently emailed me regarding the LOQBOX data breach from 2020. A data breach made you sad and now you want money for being sad? If he's received more spam as a result of a breach, which breach was it?

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Gmail users, the feature allows them to search for their email addresses on the dark web. “In addition to showing results matched to the personal info you added to your monitoring profile, dark web report will also show you other related info that may be found in those data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A Google search for that name reveals a similarly named individual has been credited by a number of major software companies — including Apple , Dell and Microsoft — with reporting security vulnerabilities in their products. to for a user named “ fatal.001.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This information has such value that it has become the currency for service providers such as search engines and social media providers. Breaches of data are no longer the big news items they once were; they happen so often that it they are no longer deemed newsworthy. Users are prepared to act to protect their data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn Google declined to elaborate on its blog post. com , buydudu[.]com com , kelisrim[.]com

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Findings from the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report also point to social engineering as the most common data breach attack method. Cybercriminals will pretend to represent these organizations by posting sponsored ads online or through promoted search results.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

However, a relentless barrage of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and sophisticated cyber threats steadily erodes this trust. This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. It targets illegal content, disinformation, and harmful practices.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

The leak itself was discovered by a researcher from the cybersecurity firm UpGuard, who detected it in early December on the IoT-centric search engine Shodan. Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

The data leak was initially found by Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com on Shodan, an IoT-centric search engine. This raises the question of how charities and non-profits with limited resources can afford to safely manage millions of sensitive files,” wrote Diachenko in a blog detailing his findings.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Sensitive data exposure is an all too common cyberthreat that endangers businesses and their customers, as well as websites and their visitors. billion records containing personal data were compromised as a result of data breaches. Sensitive data exposure can be financially devastating to a website. In 2016, 4.8

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2022

LEIA "provides federated search capabilities," which includes classified sensitive data pertaining to the DEA. Especially because as a cartel you don't search for yourself, you search for your enemies, so that even if it's discovered, there is no loss to you of putting things ONTO the DEA's radar.".

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

You are no doubt aware of the grim statistics: •The average cost of a data breach rose year-over-year from $3.86 Compounding issues is the nature of threat response: it’s reactive, searching for known threats, while cybercriminals regularly devise new, surreptitious methods to avoid detection. million to $4.24

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 29, 2024

However, a relentless barrage of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and sophisticated cyber threats steadily erodes this trust. This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. It targets illegal content, disinformation, and harmful practices.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 9, 2024

In recent years, data breaches and compliance failures have made organisations increasingly aware of the need for comprehensive cybersecurity solutions to detect and address threats. They’ll be using human-led, hypothesis-driven investigations that incorporate current and historical data from their clients’ logs.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn Google declined to elaborate on its blog post. com , buydudu[.]com com , kelisrim[.]com

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