Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Impacted T-Mobile customers are recommended to change their password, PIN, and security questions. T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first data breach suffered by T-Mobile in the past years.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Some password managers have a built-in audit tool that will highlight re-used passwords or passwords that may have been captured in a data breach. Repeat the HaveIBeenPwned search for your most important emails/usernames in case there are known password breaches that aren’t indexed by the password tool you use. .

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This might involve making sure that new or old PC has up-to-date security software and the requisite software patches, or locking down their wireless router by enabling security features and disabling risky ones. Postal Service , or their wireless phone provider and/or Internet Service Provider (ISP).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since many people use the same passwords or patterns when generating passwords, hackers have more and more opportunities to gain access to sensitive company data. Password manager tools allow organizations and their employees to seamlessly and securely handle login credentials. Best Password Manager Tools.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

These include: Home personal networks, wired and wireless, including network reconnaissance and device inventorying. Devices owned by other companies that may be using the same network, wired or wireless, due to other family members working from home.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

Many people assume that WiFi is short for “wireless fidelity” because the term “hi-fi” stands for “high fidelity.” ” Some members of the WiFi Alliance, the wireless industry organization that promotes wireless technologies and owns the trademark, may even have encouraged this misconception.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This creates a lot of opportunities for hackers to gain access to company resources because users often reuse passwords or mirror patterns in creating them. The recent boom in remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic has further amplified the need to secure network endpoints , in which effective password management plays a big role.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

resident Ahmad Wagaafe Hared and Matthew Gene Ditman of Las Vegas were part of a group that specialized in tricking or bribing representatives at the major wireless providers into giving them control over phone numbers belonging to people they later targeted for extortion and theft. Winblo’s account on ogusers[.]com

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This strategy now provides a more complete sphere of governance across applications and files by putting identity at the center of security and IT operations. Unify: Control access by users and devices across both secure wireless and wired access. Consequently, it minimizes the risk of individual identity theft by hackers.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Employees use them to print out personal information–including tax information and medical records, which makes them a vector for personal identity theft. Given that the average worker’s identity incident costs businesses 100-200 hours of lost productivity, a compromised printer should be granted supreme risk status.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. When applied to a set of 43 million compromised LinkedIn passwords, it was able to crack them with 27 percent accuracy. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. He also shares passwords with his friends, leading to the first computer “troll.”

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