Troy Hunt

JULY 9, 2018

One of the most alarming trends I've seen in the world of data breaches since starting Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) back in 2013 is the rapid rise of credential stuffing attacks. The data was predominantly located in the "USA" folder although it's difficult to know just how much of it actually belongs to American owners.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so The above accounts, as well as the email address semen_7907@mail.ru , were all registered or accessed from the same Yekaterinburg Internet address mentioned previously: 31.192.175.63. ru account and posted as him. ru account was used without his permission.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted in 1996, established national standards to safeguard sensitive patient health information (PHI) and prevent unauthorized disclosures. Regular Risk Assessments : Ensuring organizations remain vigilant against emerging threats.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since Docker hit the scene in 2013, containers have become a primary way for developers to create and deploy applications in an increasingly distributed IT world of on-premises data centers, public and private clouds, and the edge. .” “Then they need a plan to prioritize and mitigate this risk. Three Threat Areas.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The WBSC, headquartered in Switzerland, was established in 2013 and currently has 141 countries as members located in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. What are the risks of exposing passport data? According to the team, having passport data exposed puts individuals at risk of identity theft. the team said.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us Copies of near-reality[.]com

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly. In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. This allowed hackers to breach many user accounts. Third-party risk management.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Researchers from Rapid7 reported that 61 percent of Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 servers are still vulnerable to the vulnerability. 21, 2020, it appears that 61% of the target population (Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019) is still vulnerable to exploitation.” ” explained Tom Sellers with Rapid7 in a blog post.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

” The company states that organizations that fail to address known vulnerabilities in the firmware of SRA and SMA 100 series products are at imminent risk of a targeted ransomware attack. Continued use of this firmware or end-of-life devices is an active security risk,” states the alert. continues the alert. 34 or 9.0.0.10

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The breach, which allegedly occurred in April 2024, has raised significant concerns about data security and identity theft risks. The scale of this breach, if confirmed, would rival or exceed other notorious data breaches in history, such as the 2013 Yahoo breach that affected an estimated 3 billion accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. Marriott shares fell nearly 6 percent to $114.67

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This is due to mistakes in the code (usually non-parameterised SQL queries) and to this day, it remains the number one risk in the OWASP Top 10. In this case, "worst" is seriously bad news because the blog post also shows how to connect to the database with the sa account (i.e. "god "god rights").

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 18, 2022

According to Elliptic , a company that offers risk solutions for cryptoassets, the unknown UniCC administrators have made an estimated $358M USD in cryptocurrency for selling stolen credit card details. UniCC opened shop in 2013, and specialized in credit card fraud and the sale of card details to criminals, collectively called carding.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

When we think about social media, we think about the nice side of it: staying in touch with friends and family, getting updates about our interests – but the more active we are on it, the more risk we’re exposed to. The more exposed we are in the online space, the more potential there is for risk to a business. More than 4.7

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Notice Bored

JUNE 5, 2022

b) determine all controls that are necessary to implement the information security risk treatment option(s) chosen; NOTE Organizations can design controls as required, or identify them from any source. Justification for including a control is its effect on modifying information security risk. Subclause 6.1.3 Subclause 6.1.3

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Background on the HIPAA Security Rule The last major revision of the HIPAA Security Rule dates back to 2013 and the Omnibus HIPAA Final Rule, introduced to strengthen patient privacy and security protections. That makes deploying security controls like MFA to all users essential for reducing unauthorized access risks.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It’s possible the moment you see someone wearing them, you’d assume you’re at risk of being filmed or photographed. It’s incredible to think this tech appeared way back in 2013. They now needed Facebook accounts to continue using their devices. This, despite an apparent promise to not go down the account-requirement road.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Yesterday, Yahoo disclosed that attackers broke into Yahoo in 2013 and stole details on a billion accounts. Yahoo says users should change their passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which they used the same or similar information used for their Yahoo account. But: authentication is hard.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2021

Security is a top risk of using third-party code. During 2013’s peak holiday shopping months, popular retailer Target was breached -- 40 million customer credit card accounts, and up to 110 million sets of personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers were stolen. In 2013, Target had a Buzz Score of 20.7.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices. Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. Microsoft revealed last month that the Russia-linked APT28 group targeted 104 accounts belonging to the employees of democratic organizations in various European countries.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2021

Security is a top risk of using third-party code. During 2013’s peak holiday shopping months, popular retailer Target was breached -- 40 million customer credit card accounts, and up to 110 million sets of personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers were stolen. In 2013, Target had a Buzz Score of 20.7.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

What these names have in common is that they have all experienced at least one breach in 2013—the year when threat actors started targeting organizations across industries to either steal data for profit or leak them to “teach companies a lesson about cybersecurity.” The US Department of Energy (DoE). The New York Times.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

Only the customers who initiated an update between those hours are at risk. That data included computer name, username, domain name, current process name, current process ID, and several fields from a customer’s Passwordstate account, including title, username, description, notes, URL, and password.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. The fix for this risk is HTTP Strict Transport Security or HSTS for short. We've had it for years and it works in every browser.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

HIBP is Becoming the "Go-To" Resource for Protecting Accounts. And one that's come as a real surprise - I've heard many similar examples of the following advice from Netflix where an operator recommends HIBP during a support call: @troyhunt Dealing with some Netflix account issues and the support rep directed me to [link].

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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. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. Turn on multifactor authentication for all online accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2021

MITRE started in 2013 with Windows networks only, but it now contains information for various platforms , including mobile. Credential Access: Trying to steal account names and passwords. Towards Threat Modeling and Risk Management. Threat modeling consists of identifying, measuring, and addressing security risks.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

Mandia will become CEO of Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004 and sold to FireEye in late 2013. Products accounted for $795 million of the company’s $941 million in revenue in 2020. FireEye Products EVP Bryan Palma will take the helm of the new products company.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

We detected the breach two weeks ago,” Schmidt also added that exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, personal email addresses and emergency contact details, tax file numbers, payroll information, bank account details, passport details, and student academic records. ” added Schmidt.

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