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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation. It is undoubtedly in the hands of thousands of internet randos. So, let's focus on what we can prove, starting with the accuracy of the data.

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. disqus 2012 breach never disclosed, my old creds still worked! <just I have work to do, thank you guys.

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The Optus Breach: How Bad Code Keeps Happening to Good Companies

Security Boulevard

optus #auspol #infosec #OptusHack pic.twitter.com/1eCINue2oZ / Twitter". optus #auspol #infosec #OptusHack pic.twitter.com/1eCINue2oZ. Case Files: Attack like its 1999 (Citibank) in 2012 (Signet/Jared jewelers, Molina Health). Otherwise, they say they will sell it in parcels. million users. What happened?

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Microsoft rolled out emergency update for Windows PrintNightmare zero-day

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity #Infosec — US-CERT (@USCERT_gov) June 30, 2021. 2008 and 2012 but require Point&Print configured for Windows 2016,2019,10 & 11(?). CERT/CC has released a Vulnerability Note flagging a critical remote code execution vulnerability “PrintNightmare“ in the Windows Print spooler service. Learn more at [ [link] ].

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The Dark Web Has Nothing on Data Brokers

Daniel Miessler

And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. In 2012 they had tens of thousands of servers doing this, 24/7, comprising over 50 trillion transactions per year.

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Here for Change: 12 Groups Supporting Women in Cybersecurity

Cisco Security

This resource illuminates how some of today’s leading infosec women experts got started in the cybersecurity industry and embraced the common goal of creating a more secure world for everyone. We then compiled their answers into an e-Book, Lifting Each Other Up: A Celebration of Women in Cybersecurity and Their Advocates. .

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DNA testing company fined after customer data theft

Malwarebytes

What happened in the 2021 breach When DDC acquired Orchid Cellmark, a British company also in the DNA testing industry, as part of its business expansion in 2012, the company didn't know that it also inherited legacy databases that kept personally identifiable information (PII) in plain text form.