Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. Thank you for your nice service, by the way! So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently: always something.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2024

Home improvement giant Home Depot has disclosed a data breach after one of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors mistakenly exposed a limited sample of employee data during system testing. The exposed information includes names, work email addresses, and user IDs for around 10,000 Home Depot employees.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Users of Wyze’s home security cameras over the past several days have reported glitches with the internet-connected devices, from losing camera coverage for hours to being able to see images and video from other people’s cameras. The post About 13,000 Wyze Customers Affected by Camera Glitch appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hello Alfred, an in-home hospitality app, left a database accessible without password protection, exposing almost 170,000 records containing private user data. Hello Alfred is a one-stop application allowing real estate developers and property managers to provide in-home services and maintenance to residents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2024

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services reported a data breach that exposed thousands of patients’ personal and health information. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach that impacted thousands of patients. Attackers obtained the credentials of 23 DHS employees.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Since then, IoT devices have become widely and deeply integrated into our homes, businesses, utilities and transportations systems. The challenge of the moment is that many companies already have their hands full trying to improve their security posture as they migrate their legacy, on premises, IT systems to the cloud.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

It's hotel room quality audio this week, but that's a temporary state before I'm back home next week. New Zealand is now the 28th government to join HIBP (free and open access to query all data in the service for their gov domains.) Reduce your ransomware blast radius with the leader in data-first security.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. The landing page for the Quantum Stresser attack-for-hire service. net — was among 15 booter services that were seized by U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2022

During the first two decades of this century, virtual private networks —VPNs—served as a cornerstone of network security. VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe. Related: Deploying human sensors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Firstmac Limited is an Australian owned company with experience in home and investment loans. International ratings agency Standard & Poors gives Firstmac its highest possible ranking (strong) for loan serviceability abilities. “As soon as we detected thè incident, we took steps to immediately secure our System.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 24, 2024

Unfortunately, while they no doubt have many positive uses, smart home devices give stalkers an array of tools to keep an eye on their targets. And, when most people think of security cameras and baby monitors, they will ignore less obvious smart appliances. That means it can be viewed by anyone who has correct login credentials.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2021

60-year-old Mark Herring died of a heart attack after police surrounded his home in response to a swatting attack. When he ignored the requests, Sonderman and his buddies began having food delivered to Herring’s home via cash on delivery. Ann Billings was dating Mr. Herring and was present when the police surrounded his home.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Enterprises are racing to push their digital services out to the far edge of a highly interconnected, cloud-centric operating environment. This has triggered a seismic transition of company networks, one that has put IT teams and security teams under enormous pressure. based supplier of security, cloud and application services.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

Digital connections aren’t just in the mobile devices owned by 66% of the world’s population – they’re in streets, vehicles, traffic systems and in dozens of places throughout our homes. When asked if they have ever been a victim of data loss, identity theft or hacks related to a smart home device, 41% of US respondents said Yes.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ever feel like your smart home has dyslexia? This new home automation connectivity standard rolls out this holiday season with sky high expectations. This new home automation connectivity standard rolls out this holiday season with sky high expectations. This time we drilled down on the security pedigree of Matter 1.0.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

A new variant of TheMoon malware infected thousands of outdated small office and home office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices worldwide. The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “ TheMoon ” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. Photo: BrandonKleinPhoto / Shutterstock.com. and Kya Christian Nelson , a.k.a.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

27, 2024 — The current large surge in cyber threats has left many organizations grappling for security so ThreatHunter.ai is now offering their cutting-edge cybersecurity services free of charge to all organizations for 30 days, irrespective of their current cybersecurity measures. is taking decisive action.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 9, 2022

Travel is great, but right now going home is even better 😊 Next week's vid will be back in my comfy office with good lighting, video, audio and better planning. And we're finally done with this trip. 26 days, 14 different accommodations, 5,146km of driving through 4 states and the last 4 weekly vids all done on the road.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 4, 2023

Western Digital , a big brand in digital storage, says it has suffered a " network security incident —potentially ransomware—which resulted in a breach and some system disruptions in its business operations. As part of its remediation efforts, Western Digital is actively working to restore impacted infrastructure and services.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2022

When it comes to home security, the key advantage of connected devices is that your systems can transfer data in real-time, for you to be able to react quickly, in the case of you traveling and suspecting something is going wrong at home. For EBS, iron-clad security is at the core of our business. When choosing a new?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2023

Users, devices and data are everywhere, and “work from home” is the new norm. The post The Security Service Edge Journey appeared first on Security Boulevard. There’s no better example than the rapid transformation that’s occurred over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The rise of personal gadgets, the shift towards remote work, the BYOD trend , and advances in AI have all contributed to home networks becoming an extension of companies' cyber defense perimeters. However, many end-users do not recognize their home networks as extensions of their company's security boundaries.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

COVID-19 has changed the face of security forever. Employees are working from home, many of them permanently. Enterprise security today is all about secure remote access and protecting cloud-based assets. That means enterprises need to deploy SD-WAN, secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust network access (ZTNA).

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

For reasons of national security, we can’t release further details of the suspected cyber activity behind this incident,” Mr. Shapps added. Labour’s shadow defence secretary John Healey speculated that the external contractor operating the breached system was Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL). .” states the BBC.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Palo Alto Networks today extended the reach of its secure access service edge (SASE) platform to medical devices that are running either in a hospital setting or at home. Xu Zou, vice president of IoT security products for Palo Alto Networks, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more health care organizations are remotely.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

The LastPass data breach was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of the company updates. The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2021

As the world shifts from a centralized application consumption model to a decentralized cloud-first model, where a large and growing number of employees are working from home or working from anywhere, enterprise IT operations and security strategies must evolve as well.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Today’s hybrid workforce relies on home Wi-Fi networks and local ISPs to directly access SaaS and cloud-based services. Broad cloud adoption and hybrid workplaces have pressured network operations, service desks, and security teams. In the meantime, the workplace as we know it has changed.

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JULY 22, 2021

Historically, only large, well-established banks had control over the majority of consumer and corporate finances, making it highly challenging for smaller financial services providers to break into the market. The post Securing UX in Open Banking Apps appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2021

Electric Car’s tycoon Elon Musk has announced that any hacker in the world can never hack his Starlink Satellite Internet Service….hmmm Musk shared the news on Twitter and added that its SpaceX project of offering internet services through satellite will apparently be available from this year end- provided all goes well with the R&D team.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It’s becoming more popular in 2021 to have a smart home with connected devices capable of communicating with each other. It’s expected that smart home spending will reach more than $141 billion by 2023 , and the number of smart homes will surpass 300 million by 2023. Multifamily smart homes. More health tech.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

Western Digital disclosed a security breach, according to the company an unauthorized party gained access to multiple systems. Western Digital has shut down several of its services after discovering a security breach, the company disclosed that an unauthorized party gained access to multiple systems.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, critical security risks and threats inherent in cloud environments come alongside the myriad benefits. This blog aims to dissect the nuances of cloud security risks , shedding light on the challenges commonly faced when securing digital assets in the cloud. Who’s Responsible for Security in the Cloud?

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