SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. The telecom giant had initially claimed that a large trove of personal data leaked on the Dark Web did not originate from their systems. million former account holders."

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Identity IQ

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T Data Breach: How to Know If Your Information Has Been Exposed IdentityIQ More than 51 million people have had their personal information compromised in the recent AT&T data breach. The leaked customer information dates back to mid-2019 and earlier.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. The company collected 500 million passwords in total and the results were disconcerting. Adopt a password generator. Set up a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.”

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

(HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. If it says a password you use has breached, you know to never use it again. For starters, change your password.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 9, 2021

This magnitude reminds of us of the 500 million people that were impacted in the data breach at Marriott. Oddly, Facebook initially dismissed the reports as irrelevant, citing that the data was leaked years ago so it didn’t matter now. What is a data breach?” What is data scraping?” spreadsheet).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Regular readers will appreciate the mechanics of this already but all those who I point here for whom this is new, this attack simply takes exposed credentials from a data breach and tries them on another site. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Keeper is the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption software covering enterprise password management, role-based access control, event tracking, dark web monitoring, secure file storage, secrets management and encrypted messaging. Keeper is SOC-2, FIPS 140-2 and ISO 27001 Certified.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Cerebral has agreed to an order that will restrict how the company can use or disclose sensitive consumer data, as well as require it to provide consumers with a simple way to cancel services. Protecting yourself from a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On January 9, 2019, security vendor FireEye released its report , “Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale,” which went into far greater technical detail about the “how” of the espionage campaign, but contained few additional details about its victims. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Organizations with weak cybersecurity have been severely punished with cyber-attacks, data breaches, and huge losses in the past. According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Crippling losses Despite advances in password best practices and supporting tools, password-based cybersecurity has remained precarious, at best. Verizon has been doing this very substantive report, in which it culls hard evidence collected in actual data breach investigations, for 12 years. million on average.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

If data is involved, threat actors want to get their hands on it and exploit it. Some notable cyber incidents in the past half-decade include: McDonald's (2021): The fast-food giant suffered a data breach that exposed customer and employee information in South Korea and Taiwan. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

DigitalOcean severs ties with Mailchimp after that incident , which briefly prevented the hosting firm from communicating with its customers or processing password reset requests. ” SEPTEMBER. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

TL;DR Strong passwords : Use a password manager. This makes it harder for unauthorised users to gain access even if they have your password. These systems store your passwords in a single encrypted vault. But protecting your password manager is a password… so what do you set your password manager password to?

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach On Thursday 17 Jan, I loaded 773M records into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which I titled "Collection #1". — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 25, 2019. Speaking of which: New self-submitted breach: devkitPro had 1,508 accounts impacted in a data breach last week.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Adobe Patch Tuesday for August 2019 fixed 119 flaws in 8 products. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2019 patch 93 bugs, including 2 dangerous wormable issues. Security Patch Day for August includes the most critical Note released by SAP in 2019. Biometric data of 1M leaked via an unsecured Suprema owned database.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2022

Microsoft says that we need to ditch passwords forever to stay safe online as there are 921 password attacks taking place every second all over the world that have doubled from 463 in the year 2019. The post Microsoft says to ditch passwords all together on World Password Day appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

While the proposed New York Privacy Act (NYPA) aimed to fill this gap, it remains stalled in the legislature, leaving New York reliant on a patchwork of industry-specific New York data security laws. It introduces more stringent requirements for protecting private information and expands the definition of a data breach.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 With more than 15 billion login credentials available on the dark web because of data breaches, millions of online accounts remain at risk of unauthorized access. Selling Stolen Data.

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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.” Do they even know they have been breached?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. One weird trick to improve your passwords. Teaching users to be better users is a long game.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

From 2019 to 2021, the healthcare industry saw an increase in breaches and leaks of more than 50% , according to the Healthcare Cybersecurity Report by the Herjavec Group. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks targeting healthcare have increased dramatically. The consequences of these attacks can be severe.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

According to BlueVoyant’s Cybersecurity in Higher Education 2021 report , ransomware attacks on colleges increased twofold between 2019 and 2020. They have large student populations with fresh credit histories, plus alumni and employee data. Improve Your Password Security. Do not use the same password for different services.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

There has probably been a time in your life when you created a new account for a website or service and chose a password that was less than ideal. NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. It is worth taking a look to make sure your password has not made the list.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that the volume and magnitude of high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks that punctuated 2019 really kept the cybersecurity industry on its toes. Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Every breach is different, so check with the vendor to find out what's happened, and follow any specific advice they offer. Change your password. Change your password. Check the vendor's advice.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019). A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After a breach, cybercriminals often sell and re-sell the stolen data. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable. This is where a password manager comes in. Your password manager can help with this. Respect your privacy.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”. The reason many employees use the same passwords across all work accounts is simple – they can keep track of them all.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

Here's the snack version: How strong, long, and complicated your password is almost never matters in the real world. The most common type of password attack is credential stuffing, which uses passwords stolen in data breaches. I was asked to write a list of password tips, so here they are: Set up 2FA somewhere.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The iOS vulnerability exploited by checkm8 rattled quite a few cages in late 2019. In the 2020 State of Malware Report, Malwarebytes researchers found that Mac malware—primarily backdoors, data stealers, and cryptominers—had risen by 61 percent over the previous year. There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If your computer has malware on it, it doesn’t matter how secure your website is, because criminals can just steal your password or login in to your website from your computer, pretending to be you. Set strong passwords. Passwords you’ve used elsewhere. Never share them, never reuse them. Everyone’s an admin.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Key Points Account credentials are highly valued by threat actors as they provide easy access to critical data. They are typically compromised through data breaches, malware (primarily infostealers), and user negligence. This can lead to account takeover, identity theft, financial loss, and data breaches.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Key Points Account credentials are highly valued by threat actors as they provide easy access to critical data. They are typically compromised through data breaches, malware (primarily infostealers), and user negligence. This can lead to account takeover, identity theft, financial loss, and data breaches.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Your photo gallery or credit card information could be a part of this data, as well as your company’s G Suite files that the whole department has been working on for months.

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