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.

Identity Theft 194

Identity Theft Data collection Engineering Passwords 194

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Use private search engines Which search engines should you use? Avoid search engines like Google Search and Bing I’ve mastered this guide. Use a secure (encrypted) email provider Which secure email provider should you use? Avoid using popular yet privacy invasive email service providers 3. What should I do next?

Accountability 111

Accountability Engineering Passwords Internet 111

IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

Data brokers are businesses or individuals who collect and sell people’s personal information, including phone details and browsing behavior. In this post, we will look at how data brokers operate and some critical steps we can take to protect our personal information better.

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Data collection Data privacy Insurance Internet 71

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. 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.

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Social Engineering Data collection Media Passwords 139

SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. No surprise, social engineering is mentioned right off the bat. These criminals' methods can be predictable.

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Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Cryptocurrency 85

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Data collections released after ransomware attacks. Think of the Cybersixgill Portal as a complex search engine that can reach the deepest depths of the Underground. Databases with critical IP and/or PII. Chatter about the best methods to attack your business.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 26, 2022

According to Rob Sanders , digital marketing expert, social media platforms supply marketers with a vast amount of data to know what content is working and what isn’t. Marketers utilize aggregate data , collected from online purchases and website visits, alongside social engineering to keep you purchasing, downloading, and revisiting.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

PROS Light on System Resources ( ) Compatible with most Firefox Extensions ( ) "No telemetry" and "Limited Data Collection" ( this could change, given the first con below) CONS Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The naming of ElasticSearch indices inside the Thomson Reuters server suggests that the open instance was used as a logging server to collect vast amounts of data gathered through user-client interaction. ElasticSearch is a very common and widely used data storage and is prone to misconfigurations, which makes it accessible to anyone.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

As a portion of data belongs to the armed forces personnel and some government employees holding bureaucrat status- an enormous threat to national security as such, info is often used to launch phishing or other forms of social engineering attacks. Voter ID details weren’t leaked in the cyber-attack.

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Social Engineering Banking Data collection Government 94

The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

We talked about how the capacity to, in essence, rapidly reverse engineer new software and software updates — without unduly hindering agility — could make a big difference. Think of what we do as an automated reverse engineering process. For a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen. Acohido.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Through Data Privacy Week we hope to inspire better data stewardship and empower people to reclaim control of their digital footprints, balancing innovation with privacy.” This even includes information about a person’s physical well-being, like health data from apps.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Analysts find dealing with data collected from numerous hosts within an enterprise to be a daunting task. The time necessary to acquire security data, the rigidity around how the data can be analyzed, and the speed at which data can be processed make these tools less useful than they should be.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

It also houses hundreds of gigabytes of data and is hosted on a Huawei cloud server in China. Sen said anyone can access the data using a web browser if they have the right IP address.

Internet 82

Internet Internet Data collection Technology 82

Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap). Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2023

Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts. In this case, it’s hard to argue that the data in question needed to be retained. The data was never used, shared, or monetized.

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Accountability Advertising Data collection Manufacturing 84

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SIEMs , in their inherent, built-in bias to complete data collection, means that a security team looking to identify threats will wade through oceans of irrelevant log data in the hopes of uncovering a danger. Instead, many are looking to do a better job of identifying and mitigating threats before they can harm their business.

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Data collection Technology Threat Detection Marketing 139

Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Practices highlighted included “hard to find” location settings, misleading descriptions of location settings, and “repeated nudging” to enable location settings alongside incomplete disclosures of Google’s location data collection.

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Advertising Accountability Data collection Engineering 95

SecureList

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The incident started with Kaspersky MDR detecting the use of a comprehensive toolset for security assessment, presumably Cobalt Strike, by an antimalware (AM) engine memory scan (MEM:Trojan.Win64.Cobalt.gen). AM engine detection on beacon. Heuristic AM engine verdict: HEUR :Trojan.Multi. Case description. Cobalt.gen).

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

It also houses hundreds of gigabytes of data and is hosted on a Huawei cloud server in China. Sen said anyone can access the data using a web browser if they have the right IP address.

Internet 62

Internet Internet Data collection Mobile 62

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

The group used zero-day exploits, social engineering tricks, and Trojanized software installers to deliver malware to their victims. StrongPity APT group has been active since at least 2013, it’s responsible for cyberespionage campaigns against Turkish targets. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Mobile Social Engineering Malware Data collection 87

Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Now, this is really juicy: “Essential complexity is the complexity inherent in a given situation that cannot be removed from a problem definition, whereas accidental complexity is more fluid and can be resolved with engineering effort.” Metrics and associated data collection? This line alone is magical for the SOC!

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Engineering Software Data collection Architecture 100

IT Security Guru

JULY 28, 2023

Privacy Policies and Consent Management : Developing and implementing clear privacy policies, including obtaining explicit consent for data collection and processing, establishes transparency and builds customer trust. Adhering to these regulations safeguards sensitive information and prevents any legal consequences.

Data breaches 95

Data breaches Risk Education Telecommunications 95

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Short for “malicious software,” malware is a very common threat used to steal sensitive customer data, distribute spam, allow cybercriminals to access your site, and more. Your site may be removed from search engine results and flagged with a warning that turns visitors away if search engines find malware. Blacklisting.

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Small Business Malware DDOS Engineering 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. “It is possible to identify exposed systems using search engines like Shodan, and it is feasible to scan the entire IPv4 internet.”

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Hacking Advertising Surveillance Data collection 89

Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2021

There’s lots of ways this kind of data collection and retention could go wrong. What about social engineers? Even more so, considering the indictment states the defendant did not “ …have a ‘need to know’ in most, if not all, of the information contained in those materials ”. This makes sense. Hardware lockdown specialists?

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Social Engineering Data collection Firewall Risk 98

Fox IT

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Fox-IT’s approach to enterprise scale incident response for the past few years has been to collect small forensic artefact packages using our internal data collection utility, “acquire”, usually deployed using the clients’ preferred method of software deployment. Far from an ideal “fire and forget” data collection solution.

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Data collection Software Engineering Encryption 52

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

For example, data scraping is often used by spammers and phishers to find new targets: they aggregate public contact details and use them for robocalls, spam lists, and social engineering attacks.

Data breaches 92

Data breaches Social Engineering Data collection Media 92

SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This is the most precious source of intelligence as it provides unique and reliable data from trusted systems and technologies. Kaspersky’s private Threat Intelligence Portal (TIP), which is available to customers as a service, offers limited access to such in-house technical data.

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Cyber threats DNS Technology Engineering 105

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

To secure the traffic they need, scammers ensure that their websites appear at the top of search engine results: 96% of users click on links found on the first page displayed by search engines. GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

It also empowers business owners to easily see, understand and act on contextual intelligence using scoring frameworks proven to stop insider threats, prevent data loss, maximize software investments and protect the workforce, wherever they may be.

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Risk Social Engineering Surveillance Data collection 134

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Source Defense ultimately observed millions of attempts: The anonymous social media app attempted to access web form data roughly 129.1 Traffic monitoring tools would monitor if data is being sent back to the JavaScript origin or to a location owned by the social media company, but the content of that data would not be known,” he said.

Media 76

Media Data collection Retail Risk 76

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 7, 2021

I am seeing more and more women in our engineering teams, customers, partners, sales teams, offices of the CTO…a variety of roles where technical know-how is required. I am seeing more and more women in our engineering teams, customers, partners, sales teams, offices of the CTO…a variety of roles where technical know-how is required.

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Engineering Encryption Technology Data collection 96

Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Moreover, Facebook should share any innovative engineering solutions with the world, much as it currently shares its data center engineering. Better security for collected user data. There have been numerous examples of attackers targeting cloud service platforms to gain access to user data.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the starting point of Volt Typhoon’s cyber campaign, characterized by thorough planning and data collection.

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Internet Internet Cybersecurity Network Security 104

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Unlike typical API security solutions that focus primarily on detection and mitigation of threats, Salt's platform introduces the first-ever engine dedicated to API posture governance. To learn more about Salt’s API posture governance engine, join our webinar, “A New Strategy for Reducing API Risk,” on Tuesday, January 30 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

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