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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. Secret Service.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

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Supercharging Hackers Toolkits

Hacker's King

USB Rubber Ducky The USB Rubber Ducky is a specialized USB device that mimics a keyboard when plugged into a computer. It resembles a tamagotchi-style device and is designed to interact with a variety of electronic systems. Data Collection : Harvests user data and credentials from devices that connect to the rogue network.

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Security Boulevard

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

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Spam and phishing in 2022

SecureList

Attackers actively used social engineering techniques in their emails, adding signatures with logos and information from specific organizations, creating a context appropriate to the company’s profile, and applying business language. In 2022, we saw an evolution of malicious emails masquerading as business correspondence.

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