Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S. info and findget[.]me,

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

Founded in 2006, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. Avira Crypto. KG is a German multinational software company best known for their Avira Free Security (a.k.a. Avira Free Antivirus). In January 2021, Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Federal officials charged that Liberty Reserve facilitated a “broad range of criminal activity, including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking.”

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Identity theft also affects around 1.4 Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. When you add this type of data to cloud storage, ensure your account is protected with more than just a password.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. In 2006, several of the same scientists who developed Tor founded the Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky. As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

Cyber Risk Governance and Accountability The Mimecast report highlights the importance of cyber risk governance and accountability in the C-suite. According to the survey, 60% of the respondents believe that their C-suite executives are held accountable for cybersecurity incidents in their organisations.

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