The Hacker News

JULY 13, 2022

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that a large-scale phishing campaign targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office 365's authentication process even on accounts secured with multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2022

As we brace for another year of fraud attacks and online abuse, insights into what motivates attackers to target businesses and how they bypass the latest fraud defense technologies can help them elevate their defenses In 2021, account security was one of the biggest challenges for […].

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s simple, and it dramatically decreases the chance of someone else accessing an account. And because we know the best way to keep our users safe is to turn on our security protections by default, we have started to automatically configure our users’ accounts into a more secure state. Protected yet?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. Some info for people who got the warning and a reminder what it means: [link] and also in this — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) October 7, 2021. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) October 7, 2021. ” Huntley added. “At

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 19, 2021

The post Between November 2020 and February 2021, Vermont Health Connect Has Suffered 10 Data Breaches appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. According to almost 900 pages of public documentation, names, health care plans, annual revenue, birth dates, and other sensitive data were compromised in these data breaches. At […].

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

GitHub announced a security update due to a bug causing issues with the authentication of sessions. For the very small population of accounts that we know to be affected by this issue, we've reached out with additional information and guidance.". GitHub CSO Mike Hanley takes security seriously.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

SEC penalized Cambridge Investment Research because more than 121 of their email accounts were hacked between 2018 January and 2021 July. SEC reiterated that Cambridge Investment Research discovered the first breach in 2018 January but took no action to boost email account security until 2021. .

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 4, 2021

According to some estimates, by end of 2021, the number of ransomware attacks would have increased to 1 every 11 seconds, the outstanding record being one ransomware every 14 seconds. Ransomware trends are on the rise, even more so today than in the previous years.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

BlackByte ransomware is a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) tool, that has been around since July 2021. Our friends at Trustwave published a two-part [ 1 ] [ 2 ], in-depth analysis of the first version of BlackByte in October 2021. A timely FBI advisory.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Controls for Microsoft employee access to production infrastructure include background checks, dedicated accounts, secure access workstations, and multi-factor authentication using hardware token devices. It starts with a crash in a consumer signing system in 2021.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In recent years, several high-profile breaches have raised concerns about the security of customer data. 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. As PCI DSS 4.0

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Arkose Labs , the global leader in fraud deterrence and account security, today announced it has been named a Leader in G2’s Winter 2022 Fraud Detection Grid ® and a High Performer in their Enterprise Fraud Detection Grid ®.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Thu, 12/09/2021 - 06:42. Incident detection and response are crucial for effective security operations and business continuity. STA sends alerts to Cortex XSOAR that indicate user account security risks. SOAR + IAM: The Perfect Recipe for Threat Management and Response. For the alert handling process: 1.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2022

For its part, Equifax reported a record fourth quarter 2021 revenue of 1.3 On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal broke a story saying Equifax sent lenders incorrect credit scores for millions of consumers this spring. Meanwhile, the credit bureaus keep enjoying record earnings.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 12, 2022

On December 27, 2021 multiple cybersecurity media outlets began reporting on LastPass users who believed their master passwords had been stolen. This will prevent a cascading failure of your account security if one of those accounts is compromised in the future, since, hopefully, you haven’t reused the same password for other accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Additionally, both vendors have easy-to-use mobile applications that make it a breeze to access accounts securely while traveling. Dashlane and LastPass both boast strong security profiles. ” Related: VPN Security: How VPNs Work in 2021. The mobile app is the best password manager app, too.

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Google Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since 2021, we’ve turned on 2-Step Verification (2SV) by default for hundreds of millions of people to add an additional layer of security across their online accounts. If we had simply announced 2SV as an available option for people to enroll in, it would have failed like so many other security add-ons.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Arkose Labs , the global leader in fraud deterrence and account security, today announced Brett Johnson, a former US Most Wanted cybercriminal, identity thief, hacker, and Original Internet Godfather, has joined the company as Chief Criminal Officer.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29. Some security experts believe that passwords should be consigned to a place in the cybersecurity graveyard. This would mean a world in which users log in to their accounts securely, without need for typing in a password. Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

Bitwarden has a page about its audits and compliance posture where it lists recent reports, including multiple ones for 2021, 2022, and 2023. Types of reports include web app and desktop app security assessments, SOC 2 and SOC 3, and network security assessments. Monthly Pricing (Billed Annually) • Teams: $19.95

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

An effective way to diagnose a company’s needs is to involve the support team during the sales process, according to Hossein Ghazizadeh, chief services officer at Barracuda Networks, winner of a 2021 SC Media Excellence Award in the Customer Service category.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Company officials also used the first week of October – which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – to remind users of the company’s plan to enable two-factor authentication by default to many accounts, and that it will enable it for 150 million accounts before the end of 2021.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On another scam site, this time targeting Coinbase users, we see text written by a fresher model: This content is entirely hypothetical, and as of my last update in January 2022, Coinbase does not have a browser extension specifically for its wallet. Lastly, one more page in this campaign, hosted at webflow[.]io,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

. “The data is increasingly more likely to be valid and was probably obtained from an API vulnerability enabling the threat actor to query any email / phone and retrieve a Twitter profile ( [link] ), this is extremely similar to the Facebook 533m database that I originally reported about in 2021 and resulted in a $275,000,000 fine to Meta.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

. “The data is increasingly more likely to be valid and was probably obtained from an API vulnerability enabling the threat actor to query any email / phone and retrieve a Twitter profile ( [link] ), this is extremely similar to the Facebook 533m database that I originally reported about in 2021 and resulted in a $275,000,000 fine to Meta.”

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