Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2021

Earlier this month, our team wrote about the latest Facebook data breach and offered suggestions on how to improve your account security. Let's now walk through the steps you can take to enable two-factor authentication on your accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 18, 2023

However, this new paradigm also comes with inherent risks, as cybercriminals constantly devise sophisticated methods to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to crypto accounts. […] The post Strengthening Crypto Account Security: Beyond SMS 2FA appeared first on BlackCloak | Protect Your Digital Life™.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported. We also recommend two-factor authentication and other account security measures for our users as added measures to keep accounts and passwords secure.”

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Your Gmail account stores valuable information such as emails, contacts, and documents. A compromised password can lead to identity theft and data breaches. To safeguard your Gmail password, you need to adopt a few best practices that will enhance your accounts security and keep cyber threats at bay.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2021

Emotet Botnet that establishes a backdoor on Windows systems has reportedly stolen 4 million email addresses over the past couple of years said Troy Hunt, the Regional Director of Microsoft and the founder of data breach disclosure digital firm HaveIBeenPwned.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

“Many of these leaks likely occurred because staffers used their official email addresses to sign up for various services, including high-risk sites such as dating and adult websites, which were later compromised in data breaches,” Proton said in a statement. “The volume of exposed accounts among U.S.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 19, 2021

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. The post Between November 2020 and February 2021, Vermont Health Connect Has Suffered 10 Data Breaches appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 7, 2024

To help keep your accounts secure, remember to use strong passwords for each of your important accounts. Maybe they found them in the proceeds of a previous data breach. Malwarebytes has a tool that can help you find out how much of your own data is currently exposed online. Thank you for your understanding.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 8, 2019

Shortly after that blog post I launched Pwned Passwords with 306M passwords from previous breach corpuses. I made the data downloadable and also made it searchable via an API, except there are obvious issues with enabling someone to send passwords to me even if they're hashed as they were in that first instance.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done. 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. Netflix accounts for around $0.76

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000. Palant called this latest action by LastPass a PR stunt.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

shared a screenshot of the data breach notification email sent by the trading platform to its users, the message said that almost all of the leaked accounts don’t belong to Poloniex accounts. . Please reset your password for account security — Poloniex Customer Support (@PoloSupport) December 30, 2019.

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Pen Test Partners

MARCH 23, 2025

Data breaches come with legal obligations, particularly under GDPR. VPNs Cloud services Keep them safe for future investigation and potential legal action. Non-technical considerations Legal implications Get legal advice immediately. Document everythingtransparency is key if regulators come knocking.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

SEC reiterated that Cambridge Investment Research discovered the first breach in 2018 January but took no action to boost email account security until 2021. . In 2015 the US was investigating cybercriminals believed to have broken into company email accounts and acquired unauthorized access to financial secrets.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 8, 2022

The average internet user has somewhere around 100 accounts, according to NordPass research, meaning they have to track 100 different passwords or risk using the same one over and over. Business users get access to shared vaults, and administrators can create custom groups, roles, and temporary guest accounts. per user/mo!

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 5, 2024

Protecting the data of individuals and organizations is essential in the digital age, and AI and machine learning can advance data protection strategies in a way that would not be possible with more traditional programs. Machine learning can protect data from exposure to data breaches and other threats.

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Google Security

MAY 3, 2023

By: Arnar Birgisson and Diana K Smetters, Identity Ecosystems and Google Account Security and Safety teams Starting today , you can create and use passkeys on your personal Google Account. When you use a passkey to sign in to your Google Account, it proves to Google that you have access to your device and are able to unlock it.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

You can also choose multi-factor authentication to protect your account, including fingerprint and facial recognition options. There’s also a dark web monitoring feature available as an add-on, so you can see if your credentials have been part of a data breach. Also read: Hackers Leak 87,000 Fortinet VPN Passwords.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Equipping your employees with the knowledge needed to recognize suspicious activity and resources to report that activity can help to prevent these data breaches. Hackers know that the employee is the weakest link, so it’s important to combine training with secure practices and configurations as well.

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Elie

MARCH 31, 2019

Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware. Accounts which are exposed via data breach are. times more likely to be compromised. ,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Japanese video game company Nintendo suffered a data breach in 2020 in which hackers used credential stuffing techniques to access user accounts belonging to at least 160,000 Nintendo registered users. Subsequent investigations into the incident found that the initial intrusion stemmed from a dormant VPN account.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

STA sends alerts to Cortex XSOAR that indicate user account security risks. For example, STA can alert Cortex XSOAR about end user account lockout situations due to repeated unsuccessful authentications, or rejected push OTP authentication requests on end user mobile devices. For the alert handling process: 1.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

Once installed, the malware hits your browser, whether Chrome, Firefox, or Brave, and extracts cookies and sensitive data. Without your knowledge, this virus captures your session and personal information, placing you in danger of account takeovers and data breaches.

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Spinone

MARCH 25, 2019

Google Drive is arguable one of the top public cloud options for storing and accessing data in the public cloud provides a number of really great features, functionality, and benefits to tenants. With public cloud services and especially with data housed there, security is one of the top concerns for cloud today.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Account hacking. Account security is always a priority issue. Even if employees use only official clients, the security of messages potentially containing sensitive data often rests on the owner’s good faith, as does what actual information ends up in the dialog with the chatbot.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Keep your online accounts secure Respect your privacy Capture and share with care Take care of your data Take care of your device Be wary of certain sites and content online Be kind. Keep your online accounts secure. Securing your child’s data is one of the biggest concerns of parents today.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2024

Advantages of 2FA 2FA offers many distinct advantages, especially compared to just using a username and password to secure your accounts: Enhanced Security The most obvious advantage of 2FA is that it instantly enhances security for any account, system, or device for which it is enabled.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

This powerful combination helps enterprises comply with increasingly strict regulations and protects organizations from the financial and reputational threats posed by major data breaches. To learn more, sign up for our webcast “ Privileged Account Security: Safeguarding User Credentials and the Data they Protect.”.

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2019

You can also block every suspicious app, so they can’t access your data. Insider threats For lots of people outside of the IT, phrases like ‘data breach’ are mostly associated with complex hacker attacks. If some app or extension is not developed by Google, it may present some threat to your data.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 4, 2020

It is assumed that the hackers involved in the Twitter hack gained access to the employee accounts via phone, rather than email, a practice known as “vishing.”. The FBI, Congress, and authorities from New York State have all announced inquiries and investigations into the attack. .

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Twitter is now telling customers that if things move more slowly on Twitter in the coming weeks, this is the reason: "Since the attack, we’ve significantly limited access to our internal tools and systems to ensure ongoing account security while we complete our investigation.".

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The seller claims the database is private, he provided a sample of 1,000 accounts as proof of claims which included the private information of prominent users such as Donald Trump JR, Brian Krebs, and many more. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). At this time is it not possible to verify the claims of the seller.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The seller claims the database is private, he provided a sample of 1,000 accounts as proof of claims which included the private information of prominent users such as Donald Trump JR, Brian Krebs, and many more. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). At this time is it not possible to verify the claims of the seller.

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