Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A tiny portion of the more than 6,500 customers who trusted U.S. Incredibly, included in this giant index of U.S. Since that index also included the messages of U.S. Hold Security founder Alex Holden said his researchers had unearthed a public link to a U.S. Internet with their email. Internet and its subsidiary USI Wireless.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2024

Data Privacy: Why It Matters To The Rest Of Us madhav Mon, 01/22/2024 - 04:47 It seems that there are no limits to the number of data breaches. What most people worry about is the data that the company stored about them and the potential personal impact this can have; data privacy is what matters to us.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The purpose of these events is to raise awareness about digital security and empower everyone to protect their personal data from digital forms of crime by adopting well established best practices, like the use of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and establishing strong passwords. Quantitative data on human cybersecurity awareness.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2023

See findings from Sift’s Q3 2023 Digital Trust & Safety Index on account takeover data, consumer insights, and emerging trends. The post Account takeover data, consumer insights, and emerging trends in 2023 appeared first on Sift Blog.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2024

The Thales 2024 Digital Trust Index (DTI) report reveals that MFA is often perceived as the enemy of a frictionless user experience, yet 81% expect brands to offer MFA. Nearly six in ten consumers are nervous that brands’ use of AI will put their personal data at risk. AI: The Savior or the Spy? The key takeaway? Even better?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

10 packages have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) because they were found harvesting data. Check Point researchers have discovered ten malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI). “ Supply chain attacks are designed to exploit trust relationships between an organization and external parties.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Zero Trust Is (also) About Protecting Machine Identities. Move towards an identity-based Zero Trust cybersecurity approach. The importance of identities is reflected in the recent strategy for a Zero Trust cybersecurity , published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Machine identity is key component of Zero Trust.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain containing production data. The IoT search engine that indexed the file enforces a ‘grace period’ of 30 days, during which the indexed leaks are only visible to ‘trusted users and researchers.’ Original post @ [link].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Exploring Consumer Trust in a Digital World. The 2022 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index : A Consumer Confidence in Data Security Report, found that Social Media companies (18%), Government (14%), and Media & Entertainment organizations (12%) all had the lowest level of consumer trust when it comes to keeping their personal data secure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2023

The bright side of data privacy compliance: 5 value-driven opportunities for retailers madhav Thu, 08/31/2023 - 05:20 Failing to keep up with data privacy legislations, such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can harm a brand’s bottom-line and public reputation.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Mojeek maintains their own search index as well. In other words, Mojeek "finds" web pages using its own infrastructure - it does not "borrow" from Bing nor Google's search indexes to serve results. Mojeek does log limited information such as time of visit and the page requested ; data such as your IP address isn't logged.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. of spam and scam.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls. Breaches of data are no longer the big news items they once were; they happen so often that it they are no longer deemed newsworthy. The Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index shines a light on user trust in online service providers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Michael Dell also reiterated the fact that companies should learn to consider trust while designing and developing data management solutions. And in next 10 years the amount of data being generated with quadruple than what is being generated today- as per the stats released by Global Data Protection Index study.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cyber Security Awareness Month: Time to Act and Protect Trust. In a world that increasingly faces cybersecurity risks and attacks, the event aims to encourage people, businesses, and institutions to adopt the correct cybersecurity practices to keep them safe from attacks on their data, personal information and finances.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2022

The event brings together security leaders, vendors and advocates to empower organizations and consumers to reduce the risk of experiencing a data breach and potentially damaging data loss. The IBM 2021 Cost of Data Breach report also indicates that 61% of all breaches were a result of stolen credentials.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2021

My admittedly epic (but dated) post “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM” mentioned the issue of TRUST as it applies to SIEM. Specifically, as a bit of a throwaway comment, I said “people write stupid string-matching and regex-based content because they trust it. They do not?—?en en masse?—?trust

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

How CIOs Can Balance Boldness and Caution By Implementing DevOps Test Data Management. With automated test data, companies can achieve fast, quality software releases, more seamless cloud adoption, and improved data security and privacy for meeting emerging compliance requirements. jasonaxelrod. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 12:16.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Data is the most valuable online currency a consumer possesses. Yet most people don’t trust the companies they’re sharing data with, according to a new market trends study published by Gartner. In Data Security We Trust. If they don’t prioritize security, a breach of trust and reputational damage is on the line.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2021

Here’s the story of how bogus reviews on a counterfeit Microsoft Authenticator browser extension exposed dozens of other extensions that siphoned personal and financial data. Some of the data that informed this report. Google’s Chrome Store doesn’t make it easy to search by reviewer.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Without oversight of these accounts, temporary employees can explore the company's most sensitive networks, take data with them, and even access those systems and data after they have departed. Without access management, organizations become increasingly vulnerable to data breaches arising from compromised identities.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2023

For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, Google’s search engine may index that article and display it to other people if they search for your name. Or, if your business’ information appears on a website, we may index and display it on Google services.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

In a widely distributed business and computing environment, where identities are now the new perimeter to defend, controlling the access to data is crucial. Robust access control is also the cornerstone of a Zero Trust security approach—the strategy to trust devices, workloads and people in an untrusted environment.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“This vulnerability could allow an attacker to appear as a trusted user when they should not be. For a closer look at the patches released by Microsoft today (indexed by severity and other metrics) check out the always-useful Patch Tuesday roundup from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Data Viper has sought to differentiate itself by advertising “access to private and undisclosed breach data.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Mobile device usage has become crucial to business agility and productivity for years but the number of compromised devices is growing too, as shown by the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021 Report: 40% of respondents said that mobile devices are the company’s biggest IT security threat. Data security. Frequently Asked Questions.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2022

Macros have long been a trusted way for cybercrooks to trick people into running malicious code. For a closer look at the patches released by Microsoft today and indexed by severity and other metrics, check out the always-useful Patch Tuesday roundup from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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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. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Google Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Posted by Anu Yamunan and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Mohet Saxena (Compute Trust and Safety) Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers remains a top priority for Google. We also recently launched new features and resources to give developers a better policy experience.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America) apply a transparent, rules-based constituent selection process based on the companies’ S&P Global ESG Score resulting from the annual S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). About VMware.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

” It’s not unusual for employees or contractors to post bits of sensitive data to public sites like Pastebin and Github , but the credentials file apparently published by someone working at or for Orvis is by far the most extreme example I’ve ever witnessed. Data backup services. Netflow data. Linux servers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Mobile device usage has become crucial to business agility and productivity for years but the number of compromised devices is growing too, as shown by the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021 Report: 40% of respondents said that mobile devices are the company’s biggest IT security threat. Data security. Frequently Asked Questions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

TB of confidential data. The CyberNews investigation team discovered an unsecured, publicly accessible Kibana dashboard of an ElasticSearch database containing confidential data belonging to Apodis Pharma , a software company based in France. The archives include product data like product quantities and IDs, as well as warehouse data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

Based on indexing of another sensitive file we believe that the environment configuration file was exposed starting from February 2023. In the wrong hands, the exposed data can greatly jeopardize DepositFiles’ user privacy and the company itself. What DepositFiles data was exposed? researchers said. researchers said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

Cellebrite develops forensics tools for law enforcement and intelligence agencies that allow automating physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. In December December announced that its Physical Analyzer is able to decrypt messages and data from the Signal’s messaging app. ” concludes the expert.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Search engines detect malware by sending out bots (the good kind) to crawl or “index” your site. The primary purpose of indexing is to make the crawled pages available to appear in search results, but these bots also look for website malware. Increase visitor trust. Is blacklisting the best way to find website malware?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

According to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, man-in-middle (MITM) attacks are one of the most common forms of cyber attack, comprising 35% of exploitation activity. Certificates can prevent MITM attacks from happening because they encrypt sensitive data and use EAP-TLS authentication. EAP-TLS is the most secure IEEE 802.1X

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