Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Why Is Data Privacy Important? If you have never been affected by a scam or issue such as identity theft, then you may not yet fully comprehend the important role that data privacy plays.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2023

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) was passed in November 2020. It amends the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) introduced in response to rising consumer data privacy concerns. Take actions to prevent a data breach Compliance with regulations is only the first step in consumer data protection.

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Adam Levin

JULY 28, 2020

Compounding the problem, lists of email addresses often linked to other personally identifiable information can be purchased legally and also on dark web where they are often bundled with breached passwords and other sensitive data, all of which can be used in the commission of data-related crime. .

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

What’s more, Hodson observed, the email addresses and phone numbers in the leak can easily be leveraged for email or phone scams, spam campaigns, and identity theft. “Using email addresses provided in the records, hackers may attempt to access users’ accounts using various combinations of common password characters.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Show them these tips: Never use the same password twice. It seems like we can’t go a week—or even a day sometimes—without hearing about an online service being breached. After a breach, cybercriminals often sell and re-sell the stolen data. This is where a password manager comes in. Use strong passwords.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

These questionnaires vary by service, but may collect information such as: name address email phone number employer information Account creation generally and at minimum requires user email and a password, which is indeed routine.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Behind the majority of these attacks: the ransomware gang known as Vice Society , a Russian-based group linked to multiple K–12 data breaches, including LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the nation. Secure data storage is also a requirement of FERPA.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Long ago, cybercriminals would steal your username and password by fooling you with an urgently worded phishing email. They can even change your password and lock you out forever.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2021

As if this yearly ritual does not put us enough on edge, it has also now become a primetime playoff for hacking scams and fraud. Personal scams. In order to provide some context, tax fraud is so prevalent that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a list of "Dirty Dozen" tax scams for 2020. The scam breaks down like this.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Control Inbound and Outbound Traffic: Configuring firewall rules to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic is an important defense against cyber threats, preventing unauthorized access and malicious software from stealing data. Some password managers offer free versions if you need help. This will help improve your data privacy too.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

Opportunistic employees in sensitive positions can abuse network privileges to obtain sensitive information, use weak passwords, or accidentally respond to phishing. ‘Twas a simple phishing scam that brought Twitter down! And so, the data breaches keep getting bigger. Where do they send it?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

Use of weak passwords was a common theme with the investigation, which concluded: weak default passwords cyber-criminals could hack were found on most of the routers. computing editor Kate Bevan said that a proposed UK Smart Device legislation which would ban default passwords on routers " can't come soon enough. At least 4.5

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. It wasn’t as though we didn’t already know – that small businesses were firmly in the crosshairs of hackers.

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