Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms Dun & Bradstreet , and Kroll Background America Inc.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Cost of a Machine Identity Data Breach with Yahoo! Consequences from the Yahoo Data Breach. Though it’s easy to focus on the cost of a data breach, the ramifications of Yahoo!’s s breach were vast and equally as destructive. accounts and other important data were targeted, Yahoo! billion to $4.48

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. The leak has since been secured. What’s Happening? Our team of ethical hackers led by Ata Hakç? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

So, what are we doing about encryption?”. So why has it become such a hot topic, and what will their willingness – and readiness – to address the topic say about the state of enterprise data security? Data breaches are not a new phenomenon – but it’s a threat continually on the rise.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

There were 2 very simple reasons I built that and I've given this same answer in probably a hundred interviews since 2013: I wanted to build something on Azure in anger. I wanted to build a data breach search service. But I'd given them to Macromedia (Dreamweaver FTW!) See how stupid this whole argument is?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information. SammySam_Alon registered at Houzz using an Internet address in Huntsville, Ala.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

Many filling stations are upgrading their pumps to include more cyber and physical security — such as end-to-end encryption of card data, custom locks and security cameras. In the 2013 megabreach at Target Corp. ,

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 4, 2025

Service providers listed here are not necessarily "privacy-focused," but may have privacy practice changes positively (ex: adopting end-to-end encryption for messaging or) or negatively (ex: increased sharing of data with affiliates) affecting a large amount of users. update, known as Enhanced Visual Search.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. In the U.S.,

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 22, 2025

HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Measures to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Health Care Under HIPAA madhav Thu, 01/23/2025 - 06:25 Data Breaches in Healthcare: Why Stronger Regulations Matter A data breach involving personal health information isnt just about stolen filesits a gut punch to trust and a serious shake-up to peoples lives.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

Data for certain “generic field” entries was also delivered, but Click Studios said that users who chose to encrypt that data averted the malware’s data harvesting and delivery capabilities. According to Bleeping Computer , the CDN servers used in the attack are no longer active.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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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 is to say, healthcare organizations and business partners may face greater liability in case of a security breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. Tales From the Breach: What Organizations Are (and Aren’t) Doing The 2013 Target data breach was a watershed moment within the cybersecurity landscape.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. DNS encryption restores your privacy by making it impossible for anything other than the DNS resolver to read and respond to your queries. FIDO2 is a specification that uses public key encryption for authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

People use VPNs for several reasons, and one of the main reason is security and privacy, as it is used to create a secure, encrypted connection between your system and the server. The worst is, these session cookies are un-encrypted and can be easily accessed by the attackers. What if these VPNs are vulnerable to attackers?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The common demonitor: All of those organizations have now disclosed massive data breaches over a span of the past five years. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

What’s worse than being recognized as the biggest data breach in history? How much this breach will cost Target is yet to be determined. But reliable studies had found that the average cost of a data breach comes to around $188 for each record compromised. The malware sells for as little as $2,000.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

The data appears to date back to 2013, when Kim Dotcom launched the service. ZDNet asked the popular expert Troy Hunt , who runs the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned , to analyze the files. Hunt believes the hackers collected the credentials from other data breaches (credential stuffing).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more. Evervault is on a mission to make encrypting sensitive data seamless with its security toolkit for developers. Series C Bitglass 2013 Campbell, CA 170 $150.1

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2013, extortionists added encryption to their genre and started locking down victims' files instead of screens or web browsers. In 2019, crooks shifted their focus to enterprises and pioneered in stealing data in addition to encrypting it, which turned these raids into an explosive mix of blackmail and breaches.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few weeks go by without news of another cyber attack or data breach and a quick scan of the BBC news website shows that in most months, there is at least one story that makes the national news headlines. The hacker group encrypted Travelex’s network and made copies of 5GB of personal data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As data breaches continue to plague organisations worldwide, South Africa is taking extra measures to protect its citizens by rolling out new legislation. In short, Item 19 details the security organisation must have in place under POPI, while Item 22 details what the organisation’s response must be if a breach happens anyway.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments. Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. The AnyConnect Network Visibility Module (NVM) for endpoint telemetry data.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

The solution includes cloud sandboxing technology, preventing zero-day threats, and full disk encryption capability for enhanced data protection. ESET Protect Advanced complies with data regulation thanks to full disk encryption capabilities on Windows and macOS. Founded: 2013. Get started today! Visit website.

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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. The publicly available Amazon S3 bucket contained 67 files.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The malware uploads data from the infected device to a command and control server, then uses an online parsing tool to separate out credit card data. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access. Three steps to an ideal POS security solution.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A data breach can be a very costly event, and an increasing number of these breaches are happening at smaller firms. Like the small law firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, who in early February announced that every single legal file it ever possessed – thousands of them – were now useless because of a security breach.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A particularly insidious new trend is the rise of "double extortion" attacks, in which cybercriminals not only encrypt an organization's data but also threaten to publicly release sensitive stolen information if the ransom is not paid. CryptoLocker, in 2013, pioneered the use of strong encryption algorithms.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lesson Learned From Real Cloud Breaches. Consider the 2019 Capital One data breach , which remains one of the largest ever to hit a big financial institution. Since 2013, Fugue has pioneered the use of policy-based cloud security automation and earned the patent on policy as code for cloud infrastructure.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

The primary objectives of an IAM assessment include: Clearly explaining access management best practices Making IAM solutions more effective throughout the enterprise Checking IAM security controls effectiveness Ensuring that data is secure Why does your company require an IAM assessment? Companies must also erase private data upon request.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Additional review indicated that other personally identifiable information (PII) such as name, date of birth, and credit card data may have been leaked as well. SSL Certificates.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

O ver six million data records get lost or stolen every single day. The Cost of a Data Breach Study concluded that businesses pay $148 per one lost or stolen data record. Usually, the cost of lost or stolen data items reaches hundreds or even thousands of dollars per company. You can do the math.

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