Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2021

Which means losing control over one thanks to a divorce, job termination or financial crisis can be devastating. Many online services allow users to reset their passwords by clicking a link sent via SMS, and this unfortunately widespread practice has turned mobile phone numbers into de facto identity documents.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

Which means losing control over your phone number thanks to an unauthorized SIM swap or mobile number port-out , divorce, job termination or financial crisis can be devastating.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Which means losing control over your phone number thanks to an unauthorized SIM swap or mobile number port-out, divorce, job termination or financial crisis can be devastating.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But it can just as easily be placed in the hands of stalkers, abusive partners, or someone who just wants to get a leg up in their divorce proceedings. Stalkerware-type applications like TheTruthSpy typically get installed secretly, by a person with access to the victim’s phone.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Certain milestones in a person’s life prompt major changes in buying patterns, whether that’s becoming a parent, moving home, getting married, buying a car, or going through a divorce. Some of the most personal and secretive troves of data rank as the most expensive.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2021

Which means losing control over your phone number thanks to an unauthorized SIM swap or mobile number port-out , divorce, job termination or financial crisis can be devastating.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

Worse, romance scammers themselves often target vulnerable people, including seniors, widows, and the recently divorced, and they show no remorse when developing long-lasting online relationships, all bit on lies, so that they can emotionally manipulate their victims into handing over hundreds or thousands of dollars.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the wake of a contentious divorce, she found her former spouse harassing her, challenging her about where she went and when, particularly when she was with the couple's child," the suit said. She got rid of it, but it was replaced with another. "In

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

These crimes target vulnerable people, like recently divorced individuals, widows, and the elderly. Once an emotional connection is built, the scammer will suddenly be in trouble, and the best way out, is money—the victim’s money. But when these same scammers reach out to Becky Holmes, Becky Holmes turns the tables.

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Anton on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While the third party vendor may do a better job than a CSP in some areas, they won’t understand the underlying technology as well (it also further divorces system creation from rule content creation that may be a recipe for unhappiness at times).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

Brecht explained that he attacked the bank because its officials refused to meet with him following the disappearance of €300,000 from his mother’s bank account following the divorce from his father. The attack was a revenge for what has happened to his mother.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

m1Geelka’s rant starts: Dumb divorce, not work. The attack affected the provision of healthcare across the entire country, causing hundreds of thousands of appointments to be scrapped. They recruit penetration testers, of course … They recruit guys to test Active Directory networks, they use the Locker – Conti.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

Stress may even contribute to divorce. Financially, burnout can result in a loss of earnings, medical expenses, and the need for counselling or therapy. Emotionally and personally, burnout can cause feelings of disconnection and demotivation, and put a strain on personal relationships.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

m1Geelka’s rant starts: Dumb divorce, not work. The attack affected the provision of healthcare across the entire country, causing hundreds of thousands of appointments to be scrapped. They recruit penetration testers, of course … They recruit guys to test Active Directory networks, they use the Locker – Conti.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 4, 2023

It's a bit of a mixed bag this week with a very light-hearted look at the death of the browser padlock icon (which has been replaced by an icon that looks like a sex act), and a much more serious discussion about divorce. It took a long time to write and be ready to publish that blog post, many years in fact, but I'm so glad I did.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Divorce, job resignations, and suicide followed in the wake of the Ashley Madison compromise as users found their personal lives revealed to the world. You can’t go wrong shoring up a leaky password line of defence though, so without further ado: let’s get right to it. Breaching the issue.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They targeted Buckingham, who was recently divorced, and created a character – Sveti – to appeal to him and establish a rapport. He was intrigued by her reply and sent her a private message, and that’s how their relationship started. This illustrates how subtle cyber spies can be. It’s often very, very subtle.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While the third party vendor may do a better job than a CSP in some areas, they won’t understand the underlying technology as well (it also further divorces system creation from rule content creation that may be a recipe for unhappiness at times).

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Mercenaries, hired by a third party, are also driven by monetary reward; they might carry out activity that is revenge-based (around personal issues such as divorce disputes), or provides competitive edge in business.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2019

At the same time, when you lose control over a phone number — maybe it’s hijacked by fraudsters, you got separated or divorced, or you were way late on your phone bill payments — whoever inherits that number can then be you in a lot of places online. The biggest reason is lack of payment for past phone bills.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

For example, a divorced, professional female who responds to these scams will be handled with one profile type and script, while other scripts are available to groom a widower, a young professional, or a single mom. Courtney Nolan , a divorced mother of three daughters, says she lost more than $5 million to a pig butchering scam.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

Any sanctions, watch lists and so on… I don’t need to know the underlying report and the data that comes with the background check report… Let’s say this person is divorced, and he’s got three kids, he bought a car in 2018, and he’s got a mortgage payment or a lease.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They keep track of deaths, divorces, and diseases in our families. They collect lists of things we've purchased, when we've purchased them, and how we paid for them. They collect everything about what we do on the Internet.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

was recently divorced and had lost custody of his daughter as he was facing personal financial challenges and could not care for her. His job was to find wealthy single or divorced women on social networks, and add at least two to his chat each day and build a romantic relationship with them online. Hao Zhendong (???)

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 8, 2022

As Pollard put it, “After divorcing FireEye, Mandiant spent very little time being single as suitors lined up.” .” Also read: Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions for 2022. Another Major Change for Mandiant. It’s been a tumultuous year for Mandiant, which split with FireEye last year.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2021

Get into 2019 and a combination of the HIBP sale process and divorce demanded any remaining attention I had. But it was 2018 when Rob approached me on this, and my life was getting. HIBP was demanding a huge amount of attention and my personal life was rocky.

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Daniel Miessler

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But I can’t help but be intrigued by disconnects like this, where the general opinion among practitioners is divorced from the actual case. Maybe people become good at their jobs—regardless of what it is—by convincing themselves that it’s more important than the reality.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

More than one year later, I finally wrote about the source of so much of that stress : divorce. For the most part, I was as transparent and honest as I could be about the reasons behind the decision, including the stress: To be completely honest, it's been an enormously stressful year dealing with it all.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 2, 2020

That much was very broadly known publicly, but what I haven't spoken about until now is that earlier that year, my wife and I had decided to separate and later divorce.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

RT: [The fraudsters] will impersonate both men and women who are single, divorced or widowed. So that explains why the emails often are written in poor English whereas to them it seems normal. BK: Let’s talk about the romance scams. How does online dating fraud fit into the BEC scam?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

In fact, some data brokers scour the web for public records, collating information about divorce and traffic records and tying it to your profile. The data brokers then serve as a middleman for advertisers, selling the opportunity to place an ad in front of a specific type of user.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

Also, his marriage had soured, and after a new arrest for driving under the influence, he was in danger of getting divorced, losing access to his son, and/or going to jail. His fence business had failed, and he’d just filed for bankruptcy.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

But when I was young as a skateboarder in the 80s, and, you know, I was your prototypical Gen X or my parents were divorced and dad was pursuing his career around the country. There's a couple of places I can start, but I'm kind of, we can, we can move back a little earlier than this point in life.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2020

The previous paradigm was a version of the compliance model, illustrated by unending check lists of largely disembodied technical requirements that were largely divorced from the organization’s business model. The principles get elevated to an enterprise-wide risk management function.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Do you ever find it difficult to divorce yourself from the frustration of how cyber criminals are targeting the healthcare industry? It will continue, Healthcare will have some risk to unravel after the pandemic, to allow the business of patientcare to continue to grow securely.

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