Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Social Security number (SSN). Social media activity: likes, shares, comments and posts. App downloads. Why is Your Digital Identity Important? In many ways, a digital identity can help improve your life by allowing you to enjoy the convenience and benefits of a connected world. Weak or Limited Number of Passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2023

News of data dumps is often scary as the possibilities of identity theft, account takeovers, user de-anonymization, and other online data-driven threats rear their ugly heads. Privacy Affairs claims data in the set can be used in social engineering attacks and doxxing. How bad is this? Should Twitter users be concerned?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here is how the company describes the threat of phishing emails: "Phishing is a common way scammers try to trick you into giving them personal information such as an account username and password, Social Security number, or other personal information. How to spot phishing emails.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Phishing is a type of social engineering scam most commonly hidden in a fraudulent email but sometimes via text message, website, or phone call where a criminal posing as a legitimate institution, such as a bank or service, tries to obtain sensitive information from a target victim. What is Phishing? Spear Phishing. Voice Phishing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The massive trove of emails was left on a publicly accessible Amazon AWS server, allowing anyone to download and access the data. While it is unclear if any malicious actors have accessed the S3 bucket, anyone who knew where to look could have downloaded and accessed the CSV files, without needing any kind of permission.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

What’s more, Hodson observed, the email addresses and phone numbers in the leak can easily be leveraged for email or phone scams, spam campaigns, and identity theft. “Using email addresses provided in the records, hackers may attempt to access users’ accounts using various combinations of common password characters.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

This not only enables them to perform more effective social engineering, spear phishing, or other targeted attacks against you, but also those around you whose information they have also gleaned from your public profile. Password managers can help you generate and store secure passwords for all your accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Millions of customers of large businesses have been left vulnerable to identity theft, thanks to a security flaw that exposes their personal data to illicit download. However, the App Store doesn’t publicly share download data. Threat actors can abuse PII to conduct phishing and social engineering attacks.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

This not only enables them to perform more effective social engineering, spear phishing, or other targeted attacks against you, but also those around you whose information they have also gleaned from your public profile. Password managers can help you generate and store secure passwords for all your accounts.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sending passwords with each request to the API is not an efficient and secure method. OAuth ('Open Authorization') is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a means to grant API access without using the password each time. To understand it intuitively, suppose that you have the color red as your password.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The database was left on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services (AWS) server, allowing anyone to access and download the data. With that said, unsecured Amazon buckets are relatively easy to find and access without any kind of authorization, which means that anyone who knows where to look could have downloaded the files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

An attacker can exploit the security vulnerability to determine the composition of the IPRelayApp directory and find the location of the source files on the IP Relay server and then download them. “All of the following files can be downloaded by loading them from. . find the location of the source files.”

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 3, 2022

In that case, they can potentially find other information about you that may be useful in identity theft or other crimes. It may also be possible for this someone to track you down by tracking when you visit certain websites or by collecting information from social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn. Hack Your Device.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

If the victim actually calls the specific number, the cybercriminals could pose as Microsoft technical support personnel and dupe the victim into revealing their username and password for accessing the company’s internal systems. Identity theft. Example e-mail message initiating a phone phishing attack.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users. The Hacker had discovered Zuckerberg’s password in a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and he had used the same password across several accounts.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. Cybercriminals decided to take advantage of that exclusivity, creating phishing pages that assured visitors their verified status had been approved and all they needed to do was to enter their account logins and passwords.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Authenticator – a method of how a user can prove his/her identity to a system. It can be a password, a fingerprint, a face scan. Identity check – a set of actions (a password, a fingerprint, or a face scan) designed for verification of someone’s identity.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Leading Android health apps expose users to avoidable threats like surveillance and identity theft, due to their risky permissions. Access to Contacts: Apps with access to your contacts may misuse this information for spamming, social engineering, or selling your contact details to third parties without your consent.

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