SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more.

Cybersecurity

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With increasing threats, such as ransomware, data breaches, and phishing attacks, the demand for skilled cybersecurity experts is on the rise. Writing books, offering online courses, speaking at conferences, and being active on social media can create additional streams of income.

Cybersecurity

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Windows, Zyxel device flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2025 ficed 2 actively exploited bugs Hacking Attackers exploit a new zero-day to hijack Fortinet firewalls Security OpenSSL patched high-severity flaw CVE-2024-12797 Progress Software fixed multiple high-severity (..)

Spyware

Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2025

Those affected by this data breach feel frightened and infuriated, especially the women. Call her and tell her if she doesn’t pay and put $500 on my book, I’m going to have her husband stabbed and killed.’ Advice Remaining cautious and proactive helps limit the risk of further exposure or harm resulting from this data breach.

Data breaches

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

You don’t need to share your phone number, email, or address book. Zero-knowledge architecture: Encrypts all data so that even the service provider cannot access your messages, files, or contact lists. Because it’s free and open-source, it’s a great pick if resilience and censorship resistance are top priorities for you.

Encryption

Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2025

Book a demo Say goodbye to clickops. Get Started Today Ready to experience what truly agentic application protection looks like? Say hello to autonomous protection. The post Design, implement, and deploy application protection policies with Cursor Agent | Impart Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Engineering

Webroot

JUNE 17, 2025

Research shows that the travel and tourism sector ranked third in cyberattacks, with nearly 31% of hospitality organizations experiencing a data breach and a record 340 million people affected by cybercrimes. Fewer than 1 in 3 travelers (31%) protect their data with a virtual private network (VPN) when traveling internationally.

VPN

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

You don’t need to share your phone number, email, or address book. Zero-knowledge architecture: Encrypts all data so that even the service provider cannot access your messages, files, or contact lists. Because it’s free and open-source, it’s a great pick if resilience and censorship resistance are top priorities for you.

Encryption

Centraleyes

APRIL 14, 2025

Whether its data breaches, operational hiccups, or supply chain disruptions, a solid risk management framework doesnt just reactit prevents problems from spiraling out of control. Book a demo today. Want to see how it works?

Government

Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

That number is true and repeatable, but has been badly misinterpreted in the press: No security expert I know believes that if we could wave a magic wand and instantly transform all the worlds code to MSLs, that wed have 70% fewer CVEs, data breaches, and ransomware attacks.

Social Engineering

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

which I've now included in this book 😊 These are the stories behind the stories and finally, the book about it all is here: I announced the book back in April last year after Rob, Charlotte and I had already invested a heap of effort before releasing a preview in October. This book has it all. Pat Phelan.

InfoSec

Adam Levin

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Barnes & Noble has confirmed a data breach following a cyberattack that took many of their services offline. . The email also indicated that customer transaction histories may have been compromised, meaning that information about their purchases may be included in the breached data.

Data breaches

Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 10, 2024

Cybersecurity For Dummies , the best-selling cybersecurity book written for general audiences by Joseph Steinberg , is now available in Portuguese. Readers of the book learn in simple, straightforward language what threats face them, as well as how to protect themselves against such threats.

Cybersecurity

Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2024

I've been harbouring some thoughts about the state of data breaches over recent months, and I feel they've finally manifested themselves into a cohesive enough story to write down. Data Breach Victims are Making it Worse I'm talking about class actions.

Data breaches

Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Readers of the book learn what threats exist, as well as how to identify, protect against, detect, and respond to such threats. Of course, the book also shows people how to recover if they have already suffered a hacker attack, a malware infection, and/or a data breach. Topics covered in the book include: ?

Cybersecurity

Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2021

Good timing indeed, here why this is really bugging me in this week's video. References Not industry related at all, but if you'd like to see what I've been up to this week on the mountain biking front, here's a "top to bottom" video with Ari (I think I'm still recovering from 2 days of this.) A brand new YouTube show from Varonis.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The full tale of what I first did (and how disastrous it ultimately became), is up front early in the book so I won't relay it here, but it's quite the story. The book title - Pwned - also seemed like a natural fit. "Somehow" is a theme throughout the book because if I'm honest, none of this was really planned.

Data breaches

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email.

Data breaches

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hospitality chain McMenamins disclosed a data breach after a recent ransomware attack. Hospitality chain McMenamins discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack that took place on December 12. ” concludes the data breach notification. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

MAY 6, 2022

It's back to business as usual with more data breaches, more poor handling of them and more IoT pain. I think on all those fronts there's a part of me that just likes the challenge and the opportunity to fix a broken thing.

IoT

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The company already notified local authorities and sent a data breach notification to the impacted customers. million accounts. million accounts.

Data breaches

Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

Hacking

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Millions of Neiman Marcus customers have had their personal and financial information exposed in a data breach. million customers of Neiman Marcus Group stores, specifically Neiman Marcus and Last Call, are being notified about the data breach by email. According to the press release 4.6 What information was stolen?

Data breaches

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Now, reports are in that the database of the Pennsylvania based digital services provider was hit by a cyber attack leading to a data breach, thus leaking details to hackers. The post Data Breach leads to Comcast Customer Data Leak appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

APRIL 7, 2024

I suggest, based on my experiences with data breaches over the years, that AT&T is about to have a very bad time of it. Class actions following data breaches have become all too common and I've written before about how much I despise them. Book a demo today. It's Device Trust tailor-made for Okta.

Identity Theft

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Gun Trader data breach is much more worrying than it initially appeared (a bit of speculation about the real impact going on, but it's not pretty no matter how you look at it) Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

Password Management

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

American Express warns customers that their credit cards were exposed due to a data breach experienced by a third-party merchant processor. American Express (Amex) notifies customers that their credit card information has been compromised in a data breach involving a third-party merchant processor.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2023

But that hasn't stopped a couple of new data breaches flowing into HIBP nor me having some pretty direct thoughts on the premise that the vast bulk of IT pros are being told not to report data breaches. Book a demo today. And we've seriously maxed out the time, as you can see via the FB link below.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2021

More tweaking to be done and more work to be done on the office, but it's all coming together very nicely now 😎 References My new Elgato Key Lights are now up and running (beautifully made product and a massive improvement on before) I may have underestimated how much it costs to ship books around the world for #pwnedmas (but hey, it's (..)

Password Management

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2023

You know, the things you kinda want to keep pretty well protected and out of the hands of nefarious parties, like the kinds of folks that following their data breach could match firearms to an individual at an address on a phone number of a gender and specific age. Book a demo today. It's Device Trust tailor-made for Okta.

Data breaches

Heimadal Security

JULY 11, 2022

Mangatoon is a comic book, manhua, manhwa, and manga reading app that is completely free to use. The post Mangatoon Sufferes Major Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The post Mangatoon Sufferes Major Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. What Happened?

Data breaches

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Researchers from vpnMentor security firm have recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way. . Researchers at vpnMentor discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way as part of a web-mapping project. . SecurityAffairs – data breach, Option Way).

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

MARCH 25, 2023

Other than that, this week is full of the usual; data breaches, IoT and a cold 🍺 References I'm coming to Prague! Book a demo today. Writing this as I wrangle prints out of my trusty MK3S+, I'm going to do my best to catch up with folks there and see some of the super cool stuff they're doing.

IoT

Troy Hunt

MAY 13, 2023

Book a demo today. To the audience question about door locks, I did go back and look again and there's a Yale Assure Lock 2 that supersedes the SL I had an order (still no Apple HomeKey support though 😔) Sponsored by: Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Plus, there's a heap of new data breach and some really, really good news about the NTLM hashes now being available in Pwned Passwords. Book a demo today. In short - it's painful - but listen to this week's update to hear precisely why. It's Device Trust tailor-made for Okta.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach? So, someone did that 167 million times, dumped the data and shared it on a popular hacking forum. the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach.

Data breaches

Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2023

Book a demo. I blew a lot of hours on a really flakey Azure Functions / storage queue problem that only appeared after a recent update (that pretty much wrote off my entire Wednesday) Ah, scammers, the source of endless entertainment for us all! (but It's Zero Trust for Okta. Want to see for yourself?

Data breaches