Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2024

Beware of scammers Scammers are always on the lookout for data breaches as it presents an opportunity for phishing. Data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Change your password. There are a few tips to keep in mind.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 17, 2023

Risk Level 3 Data breaches are a significant concern here in the digital age. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. Remember when we talked about Facebook , Marriott , easyJet , and J.Crew ’s data breaches in past years? They can even help generate secure passwords for you!

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At Malwarebytes we’ve been telling people for years not to reuse passwords, and that a password manager is a secure way of remembering all the passwords you need for your online accounts. But we also know that a password manager can be overwhelming, especially when you’re just getting started. Encryption.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. The telecom giant had initially claimed that a large trove of personal data leaked on the Dark Web did not originate from their systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. ” reads the data breach notification published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. The vulnerability on which the attack was based has been fixed.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 17, 2023

Category Awareness, Guides Risk Level Data breaches are a significant concern here in the digital age. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. They can even help generate secure passwords for you!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 GoDaddy discloses a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. The exposure of email addresses presents risk of phishing attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 16, 2023

LifeLock Data Breach Compromises Thousands! Recently, thousands of Norton LifeLock customer accounts were compromised in a data breach. Credential stuffing is a type of data breach where hackers use previously stolen lists of information, such as usernames and passwords, to gain unauthorized access to accounts.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Data breaches are accumulating in unprecedented numbers, putting more and more information in the hands of bad actors. Even small data breaches have a part to. The post The Risks Azure AD Password Protection Ignores: Compromised and Blacklisted appeared first on Enzoic.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2023

Pôle emploi, the French government employment agency suffered a data breach that impacted 10 million individuals. The French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and is notifying 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2023

Digital fraud and cybersecurity risks are always with us, and they’re constantly changing as businesses open new channels and adopt new technologies that criminals work to exploit. Data breaches are an especially thorny problem, with millions of customer records breached every year, and even password managers becoming vulnerable targets.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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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). They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters. Very slick!

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Security experts widely agree that any organization securing logins to its valuable IT services using only a username-password combination is taking a huge security risk. The post How MFA Can Help Prevent Data Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard. The Current Authentication Landscape.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.” Image: Blog.google.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

We all seem to have a love/hate relationship with passwords. Over time, we have learned to live with them–even when, time and again, they show how bad they are at securing our most sensitive data. The number of data breaches increases almost daily–and in recent weeks, a leading password manager vendor, an internet hosting provider.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 28, 2021

The online musical instrument marketplace Reverb has suffered a data breach which has exposed the personal details of 5.6 According to Diachenko, the exposed data included information about high profile rock musicians such as Bill Ward of Black Sabbath, Jimmy Chamberlin of the Smashing Pumpkins, Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Currently, there is zero evidence that the data has been misused or compromised and claimed that the info of its 2030 employees was safe and risk free. NOTE- Using a strong and unique 14–18-character password, and keeping a tab on bank and financial details can help in curbing data breaches to a large extent.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 8, 2021

The most extensive data leak collection to date, dubbed ‘RockYou2021’, was dumped on popular hacking forums earlier this month. billion password entries, presumably obtained from previous data leaks and breaches. What are the risks? As such, users should consider resetting passwords wherever possible.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

By neglecting to set a password, a BMW dealer in India has jeopardized the entire network of car dealerships in the country and put its clients at risk. The Cybernews research team has discovered that the Bengaluru branch of BMW Kun Exclusive, a BMW dealership in India, has exposed sensitive data to the public.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 26, 2021

Fact: In November 2020, a database containing over 200 million usernames and passwords was leaked in the infamous Cit0day breach. According to researchers, the leak included both new and previously breached login credentials from over 23,600 websites. Was your data exposed in the Cit0day breach? Find out now.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 9, 2020

Weak, stolen or reused passwords are the root of 8 in 10 data breaches. Fixing the data breach problem means abandoning passwords for something more secure. Episode 163: Cyber Risk has a Dunning-Kruger Problem Also: Bad Password Habits start at Home. The post Eliminate. Here’s how.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 11, 2021

On average there are three data breaches a day, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. So, that means your personal information might be at risk. Use Strong Secure Passwords . Weak passwords are one of the easiest ways for hackers to access your private accounts. Avoid common substitutions such as a “!”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Awareness events foster to shape human attitude, enhance a positive culture against cyber threats, and educate businesses and people about protective measures they can take to secure their sensitive personal data: Enable MFA.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 17, 2023

Category Awareness, Guides Risk Level Data breaches are a significant concern here in the digital age. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. They can even help generate secure passwords for you!

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Graham Cluley

JANUARY 3, 2023

Do you use the LastPass password manager? Did you know they suffered a data breach, and that your passwords may be at risk? You do now. Here's what you need to know.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated. We will never contact customers requesting their passwords.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. Improving password best practices matters.

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Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. billion usernames and passwords exposed via data breaches and traded on blackmarket forums. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The MyEstatePoint Property Search app leaked data on nearly half a million of its users, exposing their names and plain-text passwords, the Cybernews research team has found. Scammers can use email addresses and plain text passwords for various attacks.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’re still under the impression that hacking is restricted to hoodie-wearing individuals in darkened rooms, then you might be vastly underestimating the scale the data breach problem. . Last year alone more than 300 million consumers were impacted by data breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The annual study on top-used passwords published by Nordpass revealed that we are still using weak credentials that expose us to serious risks. Nordpass has published its annual report, titled “Top 200 most common passwords,” on the use of passwords. The report shows that we are still using weak passwords.

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Identity IQ

MAY 15, 2021

Passwords are your first line of defense for protecting your digital identity. As important as they are, however, about 52 percent of people still use the same passwords across multiple accounts and 24 percent use a variation of common passwords that are easy to hack. Hackers employ different strategies to steal your passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Besides listening to us telling you that you should not reuse passwords across multiple platforms, there are some other thing you can do. Start using a password manager.

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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. Provide frequent training about the risks of cyberattacks.

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