Identity IQ

MAY 30, 2023

How Do You Know if Your Information Is On the Dark Web? It’s where illegal activities, like buying and selling drugs, weapons, and stolen personal information, take place. If you’re not familiar with the dark web, you might be wondering what it is, how information gets there, and what happens if your data is involved.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Meanwhile, a quarter report that they’ve used generic passwords like “password” and “ABC123.”All

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Cloud infrastructure provider Shadow has warned of the data theft of over 500,000 customers. The customers were informed by a breach notification which was posted online. According to Shadow, no passwords or sensitive banking data have been compromised. Change your password. Check the vendor's advice.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Multiple trusted sources told KrebsOnSecurity that Sosa/King Bob was a core member of a hacking group behind the 2022 breach at Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another.

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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. Cybercriminals can profit by stealing sensitive information and selling it on the dark web to other criminals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Avoid sharing sensitive information on public Wi-Fi networks and use a virtual private network (VPN) when connecting to public networks. Stay vigilant, stay informed, and stay secure.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

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. This time, the author of the forum post is purportedly selling information gathered from 600 million LinkedIn profiles. What’s being sold by the threat actor?

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But as our information and behavior go digital, a more complete picture of who we are emerges. In a nutshell, your digital identity encompasses all the information that exists about you in digital form. But the main idea is this: sharing the right information with the right people can make your life easier. Data Breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Systems like electronic data interchange (EDI) allow companies to exchange key information electronically and enable real-time visibility, but these benefits can come at a cost. Given the prominence of third-party data breaches, supply chains can’t afford to assume any device, network or user is secure.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Worse still is people using their pet’s name, or their maiden name, or some other relatively easy to obtain piece of information as their password, or their password reset question. One of the first things you should consider doing is registering on a data breach service like Have I been Pwned.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Compromised or stolen credentials is the second most common type of cybersecurity incident accounting for 27% of reported breaches, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). Delays in identifying, assessing, and notifying breaches make it more challenging to prevent harm.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Prevent Compromised Credentials IdentityIQ Protecting your personal information and online identity is crucial, especially as cyber threats continue to gain traction. Data Breaches : Hackers exploit vulnerabilities in systems to gain access to a large number of user credentials.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Prevent Compromised Credentials IdentityIQ Protecting your personal information and online identity is crucial, especially as cyber threats continue to gain traction. Data Breaches : Hackers exploit vulnerabilities in systems to gain access to a large number of user credentials.

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Identity IQ

MAY 15, 2021

Credential stuffing relies on two things: login credentials obtained from data breaches or the dark web. This is one of the biggest threats consumers face today given the billions of records exposed in data breaches and the current state of digital security habits. How Does Credential Stuffing Work?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. What was leaked? Next steps.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. A report reveals various cyber-attacks that often target small businesses, such as malware, phishing, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Password reuse is tempting, because it's impossible to remember a different password for each online account. That's why people are encouraged to use tools like password managers, as they make it easy to generate and remember all your passwords. Some of the information potentially accessed includes: Name.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Below are the recommendations provided by Armorblox to identify phishing messages: Augment native email security with additional controls; Watch out for social engineering cues; Follow multi-factor authentication and password management best practices; Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes , the cyberthreats that SMBs most commonly face are “ransomware, misconfigurations and unpatched systems, credential stuffing and social engineering.”. Ransomware, simply put, means cybercriminals lock your data and hold it captive for a ransom payment. Most data breaches start with a phishing email.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

For those who can’t be convinced to use a password manager, even writing down all of the account details and passwords on a slip of paper can be helpful, provided the document is secured in a safe place. For more information on doing that with ChexSystems, see this link. YOUR GOVERNMENT. In 2018, the U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s a heartwarming tale of multiple mass data compromises, which affected yours truly. We’ll also discuss how major data breaches occur, and what you can do to protect yourself in the Age of the Large Data Breach. Oh, and I received three notifications of compromise of my personal information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Prior to this compilation, the allegedly scraped Clubhouse phone numbers, which were posted without any additional information about the users, were practically useless to threat actors. People tend to overshare information on social media. Brute-forcing the passwords of the affected Facebook profiles. Spamming 3.8

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. Can’t come up with a strong password?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Original post at CyberNews: [link] Service providers using Onfido, an identification verification (IDV) service, let a major flaw in their security go unchecked, in the form of an exposed admin token that potentially left app users’ biometric data exposed. Using tokens renders sensitive information inaccessible to threat actors.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Attackers can also combine the leaked email addresses with data from other breaches and build more detailed pictures of their potential targets. Here’s how: Create long, strong, and unique passwords that are difficult to guess, or use a password manager to generate strong passwords for you.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Your photo gallery or credit card information could be a part of this data, as well as your company’s G Suite files that the whole department has been working on for months.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Faced with an increasing brain drain of smart people fleeing the country, Russia floats a new strategy to address a worsening shortage of qualified information technology experts: Forcing tech-savvy people within the nation’s prison population to perform low-cost IT work for domestic companies. Notice that nobody seems to be wearing shoes.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks. The issue intensified with the widespread use of chatbots for work , leading employees to inadvertently share sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Read more: Top IT Asset Management Tools for Security. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Communication is critical, with response teams keeping everyone informed, including management, IT staff, victims, law enforcement agencies, and other stakeholders. Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Jump ahead to: How Does Incident Response Work?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 9, 2023

With passwords, users may be more vulnerable to these attacks because they are required to enter their password on a website or in an email, which can be easily intercepted or stolen. Passkeys provide an effective solution to this problem by eliminating the need for users to enter their passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Data Security & Threat Detection Framework The data security and threat detection framework serves as the foundation for data protection plans, protecting intellectual property, customer data, and employee information. Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

TIPs contextualize these threats, offering security teams more information, usually at a faster rate than vendor threat feeds. Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Crippling losses Despite advances in password best practices and supporting tools, password-based cybersecurity has remained precarious, at best. Verizon has been doing this very substantive report, in which it culls hard evidence collected in actual data breach investigations, for 12 years. million on average.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Much of the mitigation around privacy and biometric data is on keeping that information localized to the endpoint. Specifically, when I fingerprint into my phone, that information about my fingerprint does not leave the phone. I still have to remember a few dozen passwords. Next in our extended interview series: Jayson E.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the eight required domains in the current CISSP certification process is Identity and Access Management, or IAM. You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. There's some information there, and somehow it's trusted.

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