SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s been a busy time for data breaches in the social media world with Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter all experiencing them. In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. In 2008, Myspace was the world’s largest social networking site. 29 milliseconds to crack them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced earlier this year that they have expanded the Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week , a full week-long initiative. Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Just think about what happened at the last financial crisis in 2008, or more recently with the COVID 19 pandemic. It involves a proactive strategy to recover from cyber incidents such as data breaches or ransomware attacks. An effective cyber recovery plan must be dynamic, involving more than just tabletop exercises though.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

CIA Hacking unit APT-C-39 hit China since 2008. Virgin Media disclose data breach, over 900,000 Customers impacted. Travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses data breach. The North Korean Kimsuky APT threatens South Korea evolving its TTPs. EVRAZ operations in North America disrupted by Ryuk ransomware.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

About Data Privacy Day (DPD). Data Protection Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 and commemorates the Jan. 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

0patch will provide micropatches for Windows 7 and Server 2008 after EoS. Critical flaws affect Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center. Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach. DoorDash Data Breach exposes data of approximately 5 million users. APT or not APT?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Encrypted user vaults were not jeopardized, but there was still a considerable risk that hackers could gain access using the compromised data if users didn’t change their passwords again.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Regardless of the type of SQL injection that is exploited, the goal is the same: to gain unauthorized access to applications and exfiltrate any data they deem useful or that can deliver the most impact. Over the years, we have all been victims of one or several data breaches due to a database susceptible to SQL injection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The modern era of mass data breaches perhaps began in 2009, with the hack of 32 million account credentials held by software developer RockYou, in which a SQL injection attack revealed that passwords were simple held in cleartext in a database table. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2023

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. ” The FBI and the Dutch National Police provided account credentials compromised by the botnet to the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Covering 14 years from Q3 2008 to Q2 2022, the figures show that in the last quarter the number of monthly active users dropped for the first time. While digital government is at the heart of future societal and economic growth for all of the countries involved in the survey, significant government data breaches have occurred.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

Hackers breached into the database of the famous University between April 2008 and January 2009 and apparently accessed a server where it is hosted a single database. ” reads the security alert published by the Yale University.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. According to the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition , 52% of U.S. million, second only to healthcare.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2003-2008 — Albert Gonzalez — Albert Gonzales is arrested in 2003 for being part of ShadowCrew, a group that stole and then sold card numbers online, and works with authorities in exchange for his freedom. A DSW data breach also exposes transaction information from 1.4 retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren). million credit cards.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

Since we began holistically tracking cybersecurity trends 15 years ago with our annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), we've seen many shifting motivations and strategies behind the bad actors seeking to cause immense harm. One thing has remained consistent: the threat of cyberattacks is real and a daily global onslaught.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 2, 2023

According to most industry reports , a vast majority of cloud security incidents and data breaches stem from misconfigurations. Now, let’s couple this with the classic Gartner line that “99% of data breaches in the cloud are customers’ fault.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2021

Perhaps most importantly, 1Password has a clean history when it comes to hacks, data breaches, and other vulnerabilities. Additionally, 1Password’s biometric authentication capabilities make for better security—and a better user experience—on supported devices.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2021

In the last year, the state has seen a cyberattack take out the top regulatory agency, a data breach compromise the personal information of thousands of applicants for children’s health insurance, and a cyberattack that resulted in confidential information of 58,000 unemployment applicants being stolen, including SSNs and bank information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

As a result, the proportion of American hospitals with an electronic health record went from just 9% in 2008 to 96% in 2015. Garret Bekker, principal analyst, information security at 451 Research, writes “The double-edged sword of digitization is that individual healthcare data is exposed to more people, in more places and on more devices.”

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You witnessed this during the 2008 recession when the FBI reported a 22.3% Headlines like ‘Survey Reveals 39% of IT Security Personnel Make Multiple Errors Leading to Data Breaches Amid Burnout Epidemic’ causes you sleepless nights, simply worrying. You know economic downturns incentivise cybercriminals.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2022

VPNLab had been around since 2008 and had built its service around the OpenVPN technology, used strong encryption, and provided double VPN, with servers located in many different countries. “Our service is designed for a broad spectrum of clients who care about their personal security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In the run up to its implementation earlier this year, the GDPR scare stories came thick and fast, with the majority of exposure playing on fears of enormous financial penalties or reputation-destroying data breaches.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

Documented activities include the growing availability of advanced tools and services designed to accelerate data breaches and gather personally identifiable information (PII), such as full names, dates of birth, government identification numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, residential addresses, and more.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was founded in 2008 and has since seen Azure surpass their market position. Identify cloud bucket vulnerabilities.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

There’s plenty of rules and requirements for things such as data breaches or poor personal data notifications. Crucially, should you get your data protection wrong somewhere along the way, big fines may follow. Data privacy, and privacy policies, are an “uncool” story for many.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the digital age evolved, in 2006, the Council of Europe declared a Data Protection Day. Later, Data Protection Day was also initiated by the same council. At this time, Data Protection Day was only something known to Europeans. Since 2008, however, the United States has also taken an interest in this occurrence.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2023

According to most industry reports , a vast majority of cloud security incidents and data breaches stem from misconfigurations. Now, let’s couple this with the classic Gartner line that “99% of data breaches in the cloud are customers’ fault.”

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandate strict adherence to data security and privacy standards (Voigt et al., A Comprehensive Approach to Data Privacy in the Cloud. In Handbook of Big Data Technologies (pp. 1043-1070).

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

Illustration : Adobe’s bold move during the 2008 crisis exemplifies this benefit. Data Privacy Risks Data privacy risks involve the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of sensitive personal information. This category encompasses threats like data breaches and inadequate privacy controls.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

APT29 APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard, or The Dukes) has been active since at least 2008 and is linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Initially aligned with the “Anonymous” movement through high-profile website defacements, the group has since expanded its portfolio to include data breaches and ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

Company Product Est HQ Exabeam Exabeam Fusion 2013 Foster City, CA IBM Security QRadar SIEM 1911 Armonk, NY LogRhythm LogRhythm SIEM Platform 2003 Boulder, CO Securonix Next-Gen SIEM 2008 Addison, TX Splunk Splunk Enterprise Security 2003 San Francisco, CA. Exabeam Fusion.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

APT29 APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard, or The Dukes) has been active since at least 2008 and is linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Initially aligned with the “Anonymous” movement through high-profile website defacements, the group has since expanded its portfolio to include data breaches and ransomware attacks.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S. Now, let’s take a quick look at the recent top data leaks of the world’s largest law practices. Notable Data Breaches, and Law Firms Victimized Hackers are aggressively targeting law firms’ data.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning. Wired reported that some botnets were using the initial vulnerability to spread, but later patches mitigated that.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning. Wired reported that some botnets were using the initial vulnerability to spread, but later patches mitigated that.

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